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THE OUTLINE OF 
HISTORY QUESTION TEST 


THE OUTLINE of 
HISTORY 
QUESTION TEST 



1079 Questions covering all periods and 
phases of the World’s History 
from the beginning 


Answers are found in the new four-volume edition of 
The Outline of History by H. G. Wells, published by the 
Review of Reviews 






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Copyright, 1924 

By The Review of Reviews Corporation 
New York 


All rights reserved, including that of translating into foreign 
languages, including the Scandinavian. 


PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

JUN 23 *24 

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FOREWORD 


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The questions printed on the following pages will give, 
at a glance, an idea of the vast range and challenging 
intellectual charm of “The Outline of History.”* 

Those who have found history dry or difficult will 
have a surprise if they read some of these questions, try 
them on their friends or in the family circle and see how 
many scores of different reference books would be re¬ 
quired to answer them if one did not have the “Outline.” 

They will have a still greater surprise if they open the 
pages of the “Outline” itself, and find they cannot stop 
reading it until it is finished. They will find themselves 
with a new vision, a new mental outlook, new conceptions 
of what the race of humans has done, is doing and will do 
on this earth, all told in one connected story. 

Mr. Wells, in his Introduction to the new four-volume 
edition says: “This Outline of History, is an attempt 
to tell, truly and clearly, in one continuous narrative, 
the whole story of life and mankind so far as it is 
known to-day. It is written plainly for the general 
reader, but its aim goes beyond its use as merely inter¬ 
esting reading matter. There is a feeling abroad that 

* These questions were compiled by Mr. H. L. Piner, of Denison, 
Texas, who found the reading of the “Outline” such a pleasant adven¬ 
ture that he spent three months in constructing these questions which 
he hoped would give his daughter a real appreciation of the value of 
history. It was a labor of love, to be a heritage and a gift of culture 
to her. 


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IV 


Foreword 


the teaching of history considered as a part of general 
education is in an unsatisfactory condition, and partic¬ 
ularly that the ordinary treatment of this ‘subject’ by 
the class and teacher and examiner is too partial and 
narrow. But the desire to extend the general range of 
historical ideas is confronted by the argument that the 
available time for instruction is already consumed by that 
partial and narrow treatment, and that therefore, how¬ 
ever desirable this extension of range may be, it is in 
practice impossible. If an Englishman, for example, has 
found the history of England quite enough for his powers 
of assimilation, then it seems hopeless to expect his sons 
and daughters to master universal history, if that is to 
consist of the history of England, plus the history of 
France, plus the history of Germany, plus the history of 
Russia, and so on. To which the only possible answer 
is that universal history is at once something more and 
something less than the aggregate of the national his¬ 
tories to which we are accustomed, that it must be 
approached in a different spirit and dealt with in a dif¬ 
ferent manner. This book seeks to justify that answer. 
It has been written primarily to show that history as one 
whole is amenable to a more broad and comprehensive 
handling than is the history of special nations and periods, 
a broader handling that will bring it within the normal 
limitations of time and energy set to the reading and 
education of an ordinary citizen. This outline deals with 
ages and races and nations, where the ordinary history 






Foreword 


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deals with reigns and pedigrees and campaigns; but it 
will not be found to be more crowded with names and 
dates, nor more difficult to follow and understand. His¬ 
tory is no exception amongst the sciences; as the gaps 
fill in, the outline simplifies; as the outlook broadens, the 
clustering multitude of details dissolves into general laws. 
And many topics of quite primary interest to mankind, 
the first appearance and the growth of scientific knowl¬ 
edge for example, and its effects upon human life, the 
elaboration of the ideas of money and credit, or the story 
of the origins and spread and influence of Christianity, 
which must be treated fragmentarily or by elaborate 
digressions in any partial history, arise and flow com¬ 
pletely and naturally in one general record of the world 
in which we live. 

“The need for a common knowledge of the general 
facts of human history throughout the world has become 
very evident during the tragic happenings of the last 
few years. Swifter means of communication have 
brought all men closer to one another for good or for 
evil. War becomes a universal disaster, blind and mon¬ 
strously destructive; it bombs the baby in its cradle and 
sinks the food-ships that cater for the non-combatant 
and the neutral. There can be no peace now, we realize, 
but a common peace in all the world; no prosperity but 
a general prosperity. But there can he no common peace 
and prosperity without common historical ideas. With¬ 
out such ideas to hold them together in harmonious 




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Foreword 


co-operation, with nothing but narrow, selfish, and con¬ 
flicting nationalist traditions, races and peoples are bound 
to drift towards conflict and destruction. This truth, 
which was apparent to that great philosopher Kant a 
century or more ago—it is the gist of his tract upon 
universal peace—is now plain to the man in the street. 
Our internal policies and our economic and social ideas 
are profoundly vitiated at present by wrong and fan¬ 
tastic ideas of the origin and historical relationship of 
social classes. A sense of history as the common adven¬ 
ture of all mankind is as necessary for peace within as 
it is for peace between the nations.” 





HOW MANY OF THESE QUESTIONS 
CAN YOU ANSWER? 


They Are All Answered, and Thousands More Like 
Them, in the New Four Volume, Illustrated Edition of 
H. G. Wells’ “Outline of History.” 

[Note: The numerals at the end of each question indicate the page in the 
“Outline” on which the answer is found.] 


THE EARTH IN SPACE 

1. —What is the size of the earth 

compared to the Universe? 

1-a. 

2. —What is interstellar space? 

1-a. 

3. —Are there really any “fixed 

stars”? 1-a. 

4. —What are nebulae? 1-b. 

5. —What star is so near to the 

earth that it seems to be a 
great ball of fire? 1-d. 

6. —What is the mean distance of 

the sun from the earth? 1-d. 

7. —What do you understand by 

“mean distance” ? 

8. —Why does the sun differ in 

appearance from other fixed 
stars? 1-d. 

9. —What is the diameter of the 

sun? 1-d. 

10. —How large is the sun’s bulk 

compared with that of the 
earth? 1-d. 

11. —Can the human mind really 

grasp the sun’s magnitude as 
expressed in figures ? 

12. —How long would it take a bul¬ 

let at muzzle velocity from a 
Maxim gun to go from the 
earth to the sun? 2-a. 

13. —How does the distance of the 

earth from the sun compare 
with our distance from other 
fixed stars ? 2-a. 


14. —If the sun were reduced to a 

globe nine feet in diameter, 
what would be the diameter of 
the earth reduced proportion¬ 
ately ? 2-a. 

15. —What is meant by the expres¬ 

sion that the “sun is an in¬ 
candescent fluid” ? 

16. —What time is required for the 

sun to complete a revolution 
on its axis? 2-b. 

17. —Give an idea of the intense 

heat of the sun’s atmosphere. 

2- b. 

18. —What is the diameter of the 

earth ? The greatest ocean 
depth ? (Also greatest moun¬ 
tain height.) 3-b. 

19. —To* what height may our at¬ 

mosphere be said to extend? 

3- b. 

20. —Explain the process of the 

earth’s origin. 4-a. 

21. —What is said of our earth’s 

velocity and our length of 
day? 4-c. 

IN THE BEGINNING 

22. —In what earliest rock, geo¬ 

logically speaking, are traces 
of the beginnings of life 
found ? 7-c. 

23. —What can you say of the age 

of the oldest rocks? 11-c. 


7 


8 How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 


24. —What three activities are com¬ 

mon to all living things? 13-b. 

25. —Do they not agree in three 

more—love of species, repro¬ 
duction and death ? 

26. —In what respect do the char¬ 

acteristics of all non-living 

things differ from living 

things? 14-b. 

27. —Does any living thing ever 

reproduce its exact counter¬ 
part? 14-c. 

28. —Explain what is known as 

Natural Selection. 16-ab. 

29. —Were the earliest forms of 

life land animals or water ani¬ 
mals? 21 . 

30. —By what process, then, have 

many forms of plant and 
animal life become land plants 
and land animals? 23-c. 

31. —What is an amphibian? 53-d. 

55-a. 

32. —Describe _ the development of 

a tadpole. 24-cd. 

33 . —What biologic results. came 

from great changes in cli¬ 
mate? 27-c. 

34. —What is said of the tempera¬ 

ture of the earth’s center? 
27-d. 

35. —Mention causes of great 

climatic fluctuation on the 
earth. 28-abcd. 

36. —Explain the causes of the sea¬ 

sons. 29-bc. 

37. —Has the sun a steadfast heat 

and illumination, or are these 
decreasing? 32-b. 

38. —Do forests tend to keep the 

atmosphere moist? 34-bc. 

39. —What effect on climate has 

the destruction of forests ? 
35-ab. 

40. —May mankind in some meas¬ 

ure control climate? 35-b. 

41. —How, probably, were coal 

beds formed? 37-a. 


THE AGE OF MONSTERS 

42. —What is a vertebrate? 

43. —Describe the Plesiosaurus. 

39-d and picture. 

44. —The Dinosaurus. 41-ab. 

45. —Describe the Pterodactyl. 

41-d. 43-d. 44-a. 

46. —Name and describe the earli¬ 

est known bird. 

47. —Are there* any birds with 

teeth to-day? 44-c. 

48. —Do any animals like the Dino¬ 

saur and the Plesiosaur sur¬ 
vive? 45-b. 

49. —How do you explain the sud¬ 

den disappearance of the 
animals of the Reptilian Age? 
45-bcd. 46-a. 

50. —Was there a similar extinct¬ 

ion of sea animals? 46-ab. 

51. —What is a mammal? What is 

the etymology of “mammal”? 

52. —Had mammals appeared in the 

Mesozoic Period? 47-ab. 

53. —Comparatively, what is the 

life-range of man to-day? 
49-cd. 

54. —What seismic activities distin¬ 

guished the Third Period? 
51-d. 53-a. 

55. —What mountains were up- 

heaved in this period? (That 
is, the early Paleozoic.) 53-a. 

56. —What is a glacier? 

57. —What part have ice and gla¬ 

ciers played in the evolution 
of the earth? 53-c. 

THE AGE OF MAMMALS 

58. —When, for the first time, ap¬ 

peared a variety and an abun¬ 
dance of mammals? 53-c. 9- 
Chart. 

59. —When did vertebrates first 

appear? 53-d. 

60. —Define “fish” as given on page 





How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 9 


61. —Define “reptile” as given on 

page 55-ab. 

62. —What kind of covering dis¬ 

tinguishes modern mammals? 
55-b. 

63. —What other peculiarities of 

mammals are mentioned? 
55-b. 

64. —What is said of love of off¬ 

spring in mammals? 55-b. 

65. —What distinguishes the char¬ 

acter of the reptile concern¬ 
ing the care of its young? 
55-d. 

66. —What two mammals survive 

that do not suckle their 
young? 55-d. 

67. —What is said of creatures hav¬ 

ing lungs ? 57-a. 

68. —What is said of the separa¬ 

tion of camels and llamas ? 
58-bc. 

69. —In what age and on what con¬ 

tinent did the first direct an¬ 
cestors of Elephants appear? 
58-c. 

70. —Describe the four-toed horse 

of the age of mammals. See 
picture opposite page 58. 

71 . —When did the first cats ap¬ 

pear? Picture opposite page 
59. , , 

72. —Describe the saber-toothed 

tiger. Picture opposite page 

59. 

SUB-MEN AND MONKEYS 

73. —In what remarkable develop¬ 

ment did the Age of Mam¬ 
mals culminate? 60-a. 

74. —Is the animal ancestry of man 

proven? 61-d. 

75. —Are the skeletons of the go¬ 

rilla and of man much alike? 
63-a. 

76. —What man-like animal devel¬ 

oped about 600,000 years 
B. C.? See page 62, chart, 
and pictures opposite page 67. 


77. —About when were the first im¬ 

plements made? 62-Chart. 

78. —About when did the Heidel- 

burg Man live? 62-Chart. 

79. —About when did the Neander¬ 

thal man live? 62-Chart. De¬ 
scribe him. 

80. —About when did the Age of 

True Man begin? 62-Chart. 
71-b. 

81. —What people still hold objects 

securely between the “big 
toe” and the next toe? 63-d. 

82. —Where did we get our very 

earliest knowledge of man ? 
65-b. 

83. —What animals were contem¬ 

porary with earliest man ? 
64-Chart. 

THE DAWN MAN 

84. —Describe the Pithecanthropus 

Erectus. Page 68. 

85. —What were the earliest im¬ 

plements made of? 71-a. 

86. —Is it probable that what we 

know as the Desert of Sahara 
was always a desert? 73-d. 
163-b. 

87. —What shelter did the Nean¬ 

derthal man seek from cold 
and from wild beasts? 75-c. 

88. —Is it probable that he knew 

the use of fire? 75-c. 

89. —What savage beasts sought 

refuge in caves also? 76-a. 

90. —What weapons did the Nean¬ 

derthal man use for slaying 
big game, such as the mam¬ 
moth and the cave bear? 76c. 

91. —With what did he and his 

people dress ? 77-a. 

92. —How do we know that the 

Neanderthal man was right- 
handed? 77-b. 

93. —How do we know that he had 

good sight but poor thought 
and speech? 77-b. 





IO How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 


94. —Name varieties of food eaten 

by his people? 80-cd. 81-a. 

95. —What people relish caterpil¬ 

lars in this age? 81-b. 

AN EXTINCT RACE 

96. —Why were Tasmanians of his¬ 

toric times less developed than 
the Neanderthal man? 83-c. 

97. —How long did the Neander¬ 

thal type of man live in Eu¬ 
rope? 85-a. 

98. —Were they really human be¬ 

ings? 85-a. 

99. —What caused the extinction of 

the Neanderthal people ? 85-b. 

100. —Do we know where their con¬ 

querors came from? 86-ab. 

101. —In what three particulars at 

least did the Cro-Magnon 
man and the Grimaldi cave 
man resemble our people of 
to-day? 90-a. 

102. —Did they domesticate any 

wild animals? 91-ab. 

103. —What evidences of artistic 

ability among these peoples 
are mentioned? 91-c. 

104. —What history of themselves 

is left in their graves? 91-d. 

105. —In the caves and cliffs of 

what countries do these col¬ 
orings on Cro-Magnon and 
Grimaldi paintings remain to 
this day? 91-a. 

106. —What were the first known 

needles made of? 89-96-a. 

107. —The Cro-Magnon and the 

Grimaldi cave people were 
hunting races. They were 
exterminated by a new race. 
In. what particulars did the 
civilization of the conquerors 
show superiority to the con¬ 
quered? 96-b. 

108. —How long did Reindeer men 

occupy Western Europe? 
97-b. 


109. —What one distinction grades 

them below modern sav¬ 
ages? 97-b. 

110. —What is said of the great ox 

or aurochs? 100-bc and foot¬ 
note. 


THE FIRST TRUE MEN 

111. —When did Neolithic civiliza¬ 

tion appear in Europe ? 103-a. 

112. —Could you surmise from 

what continent or country 
they came? 

113. —Name products of Neo¬ 

lithic civilization that show 
an advance over previous 
development. 103-bcd. 104-a. 

114. —Are modern European white 

races descendants of the 
Neolithic man? 105-c. 

115. —What was the first known 

of the metals? 105-c. 

116. —In what country are Neo¬ 

lithic remains rich in gold? 
105-c. 

117. —How long since copper was 

first used? 105-c. 

118. —When and where was iron 

first smelted? 106-d. 

119. —About when did the civili¬ 

zation of the white man in 
Europe begin? 107-b. 

120. —What is the legend as to why 

the Neolithic man would not 
eat the hare? 111-b. 

THE DAWN OF CIVILIZATION 

121. —What animals were domes¬ 

ticated by Lake Dwellers ? 
110-c. 

122. —While remote ages in Eu¬ 

rope and Asia were beginning 
to cultivate and eat wheat, 
what became of the native 
grain of the American Abor¬ 
igines? 111-first footnote. 





How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? II 


123. —Did Neolithic peoples have 

chickens? 112-c. 

124. —Is the hen mentioned in the 

Old Testament? 112-second 
footnote. 

125. —Does early Greek literature 

mention chickens? 112-sec¬ 
ond footnote. 

126. —Where and approximately 

when were poultry fowls 
first domesticated? 112-sec¬ 
ond footnote. 

127. —When were poultry fowls first 

introduced into China? 112. 
Note 2. 

128. —What were the chief tools and 

weapons of Neolithic man? 
113-ac. 

129. —By what means did he culti¬ 

vate the soil? 113-a. 

130. —How may the bow-string of 

the hunter have led to musi¬ 
cal instruments? 113-b. 

131. —How do we know that the 

Swiss Lake-Dwellers had fire? 

113- d. 

132. —Was it evidence of advancing 

civilization when races of 
hunters became herdsmen? 

114- bc. 

133. —What barbaric religious rite 

was practiced among Neo¬ 
lithic peoples 10,000 years 
ago? 115-bc. 136-ab. 

134. —Show how the accidental 

discovery of metals in camp 
fires of savages hastened the 
development of civilization. 

135 . —Which was discovered first, 

bronze or iron? 115-d. 

136. —Which is the more useful— 

brass, copper, gold, or iron? 

THE FLOOD 

137 . —Was the Mediterranean al¬ 

ways a sea? 116-c. 117-ac. 

118-c. 119. 


138. —What caused it to become a 

sea? 112-c. 

139. —Where did the Atlantic 

Ocean break through into 
this valley? 119. 

140. —When did man first appear 

on earth? 116-c. 

141. —Did people ever live in land 

basins which are now the 
bottom of the Mediterra¬ 
nean? 117-bd. 

142. —Many rivers flow into the 

Mediterranean. Why does it 
not overflow? 117-b. 

143. —Why does the Black Sea 

overflow? 117-b. 

144. —Where, probably, were the 

first crude beginnings of 
civilization? 118-d. 

145. —How far back is it to the 

ape-man stage? 121-a. 

146. —Do you believe that Neolithic 

man had much language? 
122-b. 

147. —Does the development of lan¬ 

guage precede or follow the 
development of thought? 

148. —Comparatively at what age of 

child-thought was the early 
Neolithic mind? 122-a. 

149. —Was there, apparently, any 

religious development among 
the early Neolithic peoples or 
their ancestors? 122-c. 

150. —Neanderthal men buried their 

dead, and often placed food 
and weapons in the graves. 
Is this evidence of belief in 
the resurrection of the dead? 

122- d. 

151. —Highly civilized peoples can 

thrive with dense populations. 
Savages cannot do this. Why? 

123- ab. 

152. —How far ahead of the Rein¬ 

deer Man are the crudest 
American savages ? 123-a. 





12 How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 


PRIMITIVE RELIGION 

153. —Show how worship of ances¬ 

tors probably originated. 124- 
bcd. 

154. —Show how, through pestilence 

and fear and superstition, 
priestcraft and witchcraft 
arose. 125-cd. 126-ab. 

155. —Show that the development of 

spoken language made moth¬ 
ers more kindly to their chil¬ 
dren. 126-c. 

156. —Show how primitive man 

came to study the stars and 
formulate the beginnings of 
the science of Astronomy. 

127- c. 

157. —In what zone were the begin¬ 

nings of agriculture? 127c. 

158. —How illiterate are some sav¬ 

ages to-day in figures? 127-d. 

159. —Could Neolithic peoples count 

and calculate? 127-d. 128-a. 

160. —Why was 12 a noble number 

and 13 an ignoble one? 128-a. 

161. —What furnished the basis for 

reckoning time to primitive 
man ? 129-a. 

162. —Why was moonlight impor¬ 

tant to ancient herdsmen ? 

128- a. 

163. —What human industry led to 

squaring the lunar month with 
the calendar year? 129-b. 

164. —Show how the first crude be¬ 

ginnings of religious ideas 
originated. 131-abcd. 

165. —What were some of the im¬ 

plements of the Bronze Age? 
132-Chart. 

166. —About when did agriculture 

begin? 133-Chart. 

167. —About when did the Neo¬ 

lithic men advance from the 
South or from the Southeast 
into Europe? 133-Chart. 

168. —What is the oldest civiliza¬ 

tion? How old is it? 


169. —About when was the first 

Egyptian dynasty estab¬ 
lished? 133-Chart. 

170. —Who was Sargon, and when 

and where did he rule? 133- 
Chart. 

171. —About when did iron first 

come into use? 133-Chart. 

172. —How long did Julius Caesar 

live before Christ? 133-Chart. 

THE COMING OF CHRIST 

173. —Why is our Era called The 

Christian Era? 

174. —Was the world at peace or 

at war when Christ was born ? 

175. —What great religious teachers 

had preceded Christ? 

176. —Is it well for peoples to be 

shut off from other peoples 
by impassable seas or moun¬ 
tains or deserts? Give exam¬ 
ples. 137-bc. 139-bc. 

177. —Has any race retained in 

absolute purity its original 
strain to this day? 142-b. 

178. —Of what service has the 

study of skull-shapes been to 
ethnologists? 144-a. 

179. —Does it appear that blonds 

are the prevailing types 
nearer the poles, and bru¬ 
nettes nearer the equator? 
144. 

180. —Which seem to be the basic 

peoples of the modern world? 
145-ab. 

181. —Judging from cranial contour, 

eyes, hair, neck, and features, 
which is the finest type of 
man in the pictures on page 
146? 

182. —Is the practice of massage 

modern ? 148-a. 

183. —What people put the father to 

bed when a child was born? 
148. 




How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 13 


184. —What people mis-shaped chil¬ 

dren’s heads with bandages? 
148. 

185. —How ancient is tattooing? 

148. 

186. —What is a swastika? 148. 

187. —To what branch of the human 

family do the aboriginal 
American Indians belong? 

150- b. 

188. —When and how did they prob¬ 

ably reach America? 150-b. 

189. —Where is there still a traffic 

in skin boats between the 
Eastern and the Western 
Hemisphere? 150-b. 

190. —Was Indian corn known in 

the Eastern Hemisphere in 
ancient times? 150-c. 

191. —Is the horse a native of 

America? 150-d. 

192. —Did aboriginal Americans 

ever found cities or empires? 

151- a. 

BEFORE BABEL? 

193. —Is it probable that there ever 

was a universal common lan¬ 
guage? 153-a. 

194. —What group of languages 

comes under the primary lan¬ 
guage known as Semitic? 
156-cd. 

195 . —Racially were the Aryan and 

the Semitic peoples of com¬ 
mon origin? 158-a. 

196. —Are they both Caucasian? 

158-b. 

197. —What languages chiefly are 

Hamitic? 158-cd. 

198. —What one feature is common 

to Aryan, Semitic and Hamitic 
languages? 159-b. 

199 . —What are the monosyllabic 

languages? 160-b. 

200. —Is a literal translation of Chi¬ 

nese writing into English pos¬ 
sible? 160-c. 


201. —What was the extent of ice- 

covered areas in Glacial Ages? 
162-c. 

202. —Can you suggest any reason 

why the mountain peoples of 
Europe are different in lan¬ 
guage and certain racial char¬ 
acteristics from all others ? 

203. '—What race became extinct in 

1877? (Tasmania.) 

204. —How far back did men build 

cities? 169-b. 

205. —What definition of civilization 

is given? 170-a. 

206. —What does Herodotus and 

Pliny say of wheat yield in 
Mesopotamia? 170-c. 

207. —What building materials were 

found in Egypt and in Meso¬ 
potamia? 170-c. 

208. —Contrast these peoples with 

dwellers of the Arabian Des¬ 
ert. 172-abc. 

209. —Was there a clear distinction 

in those ancient times between 
the aristocrat and the labor¬ 
ing class? 173-c. 

210. —Who were probably the first 

people to build cities? 174-a. 

211. —Where did one of them build 

a great tower? 

212. —What kind of brick did they 

use? 174-d. 

THE FIRST EMPIRE 

213. —Who founded the first of all 

known empires and how 
large was it? 175-b. 

214. —Where were the first tem¬ 

ples and first priest-rulers? 

175- bc. 

215. —Along what great river val¬ 

ley was this? 174-a. 

216. —What peculiar name was 

given to Sumerian writing? 

176- a. 

217. —What people from the West 

became masters of Mesopo¬ 
tamia? 176-d. 





14 How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 


218. —When and under what king 

of the Asmonites was the first 
Babylonian Empire founded? 
177-a. 

219. —What race founded Nineveh? 

177-b. (Jews.) 

220. —Who conquered them? 177-b. 

221. —What is said of the military 

skill of these Semites? 177-c. 

222. —When and under what leader 

did they conquer Babylon ? 
177-c. 

223. —How long did the Assyrian 

Empire last? 179-b. 

224. —What years are covered by 

the Chaldean Empire under 
Nebuchadnezzar and his suc¬ 
cessors? 179-c. 

225. —Who conquered Nebuchad¬ 

nezzar’s Babylonian or Chal¬ 
dean Empire? 179-c. 

226. —At the time of Alexander the 

Great what new possession 
and attainments belonged to 
the Persians and Chaldeans? 
180-bc. 

227. —About when was Heliolithic 

culture developing in the 
Mediterranean region? 181- 
Chart. 

228. —What does “pharaoh” mean? 

229. —In what country did the Su¬ 

merians develop an ancient 
civilization? 181-Chart. 

230. —When were the Iberians first 

known to be in Britain? 181- 
Chart. 

THE GREAT WHITE RACE 

231. —Do we really know where the 

Aryan race originated? 181- 
Chart. 

232. —About how long B.C. did 

Abraham live? 181-Chart. 

233. —When did Sargon I. found 

the Akkadian-Sumerian Em¬ 
pire? 181-Chart. 

234. —In what country was this em¬ 

pire? 181-Chart. 


235. —What great civilization was 

developed in India about 
3000 B.C. ? 181-Chart. 

236. —About when were the tem¬ 

ples, like Stonehenge in Bri¬ 
tain, erected? 181-Chart. 

237. —At what period do Chinese 

histories place the first five 
Emperors? 181-Chart. 

238. —Is it known where the Dra- 

vidians came from? 181- 
Chart. 

239. —About when did the Aryans 

descend into India? 181- 
Chart. 

240. —Of what great race or family 

are the Kelts and Iberians of 
Western Europe? 181-Chart. 

241. —About when were the events 

that are recited in the Iliad? 
181-Chart. 

242. —About when did Moses live? 

181-Chart. 

243. —When and by whom was 

Carthage founded? 181- 
Chart. 

244. —About when did Solomon 

live? 181-Chart. 

245. —About when did the Hit- 

tites capture Nineveh? 181- 
Chart. 

246. —When did Tiglath Pileser 

take Babylon? 181-Chart. 

247. —When was Rome founded? 

181-Chart. 

248. —In what age did Buddha 

live? 181-Chart. 

249. —When did Confucius live? 

181-Chart. 

250. —When did Cyrus, Persian 

King, take Babylon? 181- 
Chart. 

251. —When did iron weapons 

come into use? 181-Chart. 

252. —Can you name monarchs of 

Rome besides Julius Caesar? 

253. —When was Asoka king in 

India? 181-Chart. 





How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 15 


CIVILIZATION’S CRADLE 

254. —What geographical condi¬ 

tions protected ancient Egypt 
from invasion ? 182-b. 

255. —When did Egypt come un¬ 

der the rule of an Ethiopian 
dynasty? 182-b. 

256. —What ancient people, before 

burying their dead, cut up 
the dead bodies and ate a 
portion of the flesh? 182-c. 

257. —Were the Neolithic people 

in Egypt direct ancestors of 
the Egyptians? 182-c. _ 

258. —What kind of houses did the 

immediate ancestors of the 
Egyptians have ? 183-a. 

259. —What did the Egyptians sub¬ 

stitute as writing materials 
for the clay tablets of the 
Babylonians? 183. 

260. —From what comes the word 

“paper”? 183-a. 

261. —By what race were the Egyp¬ 

tians finally conquered ? 
184-a. 

262. —About when were the Pyra¬ 

mids of Egypt built under 
Cheops? 184-b. 

263. —What is said of the cost of 

the Pyramids? 184-c. 

264. —Whose reign was the long¬ 

est in human history? (Pepi 
II. of Egypt.) 184-c. 

265. —Describe the Great Pyramid 

of Gizeh. 184-d. 

266. —In what dynasty or dynasties 

were the Pyramids probably 
built? 185-bc. 

267. —What queen is represented on 

her monuments in masculine 
garb and long beard? 186-a. 

268. —To what dynasty did Ram- 

eses II. belong? 168-a. _ 

269. —What Bible connection is he 

supposed to have? 186-b. 

270. —What Egyptian pharaoh 

plundered Solomon’s Tem¬ 
ple? 186-b. 


271. —What great achievement is 

accorded to Nebuchadnez¬ 
zar II.? 186-c. 

272. —After Alexander the Great 

what nationality of rulers 
governed Egypt? 186-c. 

THE GREAT WALL 

273. —When does Chinese civiliza¬ 

tion come into history? 
188-d. 

274. —Into what did the growth of 

“city states” finally culmi¬ 
nate? 190-c. 

275. —By what people was the use 

of iron taught to the Chinese 
about 500 B.C. ? (Huns.) 
192-c. 

276. —What stupendous undertak¬ 

ing engaged the Chinese Em¬ 
peror, Shi-Hwang-ti, about 
500 B.C. ? (Wall.) 192-c. 

277. —What gigantic animals were 

found in South America when 
men reached that country? 
194-a. 

278. —In what were the earliest 

South American natives 
skillful? 194-b. 

279. —Were there priests among 

the earliest South Ameri¬ 
cans? 194-c. 

280. —What is said of knowledge of 

astronomy among the earliest 
South Americans ? 194-c. 

281. —What horrible religious prac¬ 

tices among the Aztecs are 
mentioned? 195-b. 

282. —What ancient people kept rec¬ 

ords by means of knots tied in 
strings? (Peruvians.) 195-c. 

283. —At the time of the discovery 

of America what did people 
know of geography? 196-a. 

284. —Had the ancient Mexicans 

ever heard of the potato 
which was the principal food 
in Peru? 196-a. 






16 How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 


285. —About 5000 B.C. which had 

the more advanced civiliza¬ 
tion—the Eastern or the 
Western Hemisphere? 196-a. 

286. —By what people were the 

first boats made? 197-a. 

287. —What kind of boat construc¬ 

tion was the Ark of bul¬ 
rushes in which the infant, 
Moses, was hidden by his 
mother? 197-b. 

THE FIRST PIRATES 

288. —Was there a seafaring people 

at the east end of the Medi¬ 
terranean 6000 years ago? 
(Yes.) 198-b. 

289. —Is there evidence that the first 

human sailors were pirates ? 
199-a. 

290. —On what sea, and why, did 

oars replace sails? 200-b. 

291. —Where did the art of rowing 

really begin? (Nile.) 220-c. 

292. —About how far back did row¬ 

ing by oars become common 
in Egypt? 200c. 

293. —How far back may Phoeni¬ 

cian ships have been in use on 
the Mediterranean? 201-b. 

294. —What women of an ancient 

people wore corsets? (Cre¬ 
tans.) 203-b. 

295. —What people were immune 

from invasion for 3000 years? 

203-c. 

296. —What geographical and inter¬ 

national conditions made this 
possible? 203-c. 

297. —What cultural development 

has invariably followed where 
a people were safe from war 
and invasion ? 203-c. 

298. —Are all races artistic if undis¬ 

turbed by war? 203-c. 

299. —In what country of ancient 

times does legend say the first 
flying machines were used? 
(Crete.) 203-c. 


300. —In Homer’s Iliad why was de¬ 

struction brought upon Troy? 

204- c. 

301. —Why do you suppose Trojans 

stole Greek women? 

302. —What ancient north-African 

city had a million people? 

205- d. 

303. —For what kind of home-made 

merchandise did Carthage 
become universally famous ? 
205-d. 

HOW WRITING BEGAN 

304. —To what people is the develop¬ 

ment of alphabetical writing 
generally attributed? 207-c. 

305. —To what people are our mod¬ 

ern numerals ascribed? 207-c. 

306. —To what branch of the human 

family may we trace the ori¬ 
gin of arithmetic and alge¬ 
bra? 207-c. 

307. —What people first began to 

think of God as a righteous, 
fair-dealing God? 208-a. 

308. —What kind of trade was car¬ 

ried on between peoples up to 
the 6th century B.C. ? 208-a. 

309. —Why did it have to be barter? 

208- a. 

310. —What kind of animal was the 

basis of values? 208-b. 

311. —What does the Roman word 

for money really mean ? (“Pe- 
cunia.”) 208-b. 

312. —What farm product was legal 

tender in the American Colo¬ 
nies? 208-b. 

313. —In what country is gin a me¬ 

dium of exchange as money 
is with us? 208-c. 

314. —Was iron ever used as 

money? 208-c. 

315. —When and in what country 

were coins first minted? 

209- a. 

316. —What ancient rich man first 

coined gold? (Croesus.) 209-b. 





How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 17 


317. —What people used leather 

money? (Carthaginians.) 
209-b. 

318. —What ancient people used 

coins almost as small as pin¬ 
heads? (Athenians.) 209-foot¬ 
note. 

319. —Show that we' know more 

about the world of 600 B.C. 
than the people then living 
knew? 210-c. 

320. —What graphic method of con¬ 

veying thought preceded writ¬ 
ten language? 214-a. 

321. —Is picture writing used by any. 

known people to-day? 214-a. 

322. —Why did the Chinese language 

actually hamper and retard 
Chinese civilization? 216-cd. 
217-ab. 

323. —Tell some benefits of the art 

of writing to the development 
of human civilization. 221-222. 

THE TEMPLE 

324. —How early did the Temple ap¬ 

pear in every civilization? 223. 

325. —What personage invariably 

appears with the Temple? 
224-ab. 

326. —Where was writing first be¬ 

gun, and where were records 
first kept? 224-c. 

327. —What outside professions were 

embraced in the life of ancient 
priests? 224-d. 

328. —In what direction did Egyp¬ 

tians and Babylonian temples 
face? 228-b. 

329. —In what direction do the 

Pyramids of Egypt and the 
sphinx face ? 228-c. 

330. —Does it seem to have connec¬ 

tion with sun-worship? 230-a. 

331. —Does Stonehenge, in Britain, 

seem to have been erected in 
respect to facing the mid¬ 
summer sunrise ? 230-b. 


332. —When and by whom was the 

zodiac formulated? (Egyp¬ 
tians 3000 B.C.) 230-c. 

333. —When was the Great Sphinx 

of Gizeh carved? Picture op¬ 
posite 231. Note. 

334. —What are its dimensions and 

material? Picture opposite 
231. 

335. —In what direction does the 

Sphinx face and why? Pic¬ 
ture and note. 

336. —For several thousand years 

B.C. and for a thousand after, 
who wefe the chief possessors 
of knowledge? (Priests.) 
231-a. 

337. —In gathering his materials 

for general history, Herodo¬ 
tus (485-425 B.C.) sent in¬ 
vestigators in search of data 
all over the known world. 
From whom, chiefly, did they 
get their information? 231-b. 

338. —Except among temple dig¬ 

nitaries, what was the educa¬ 
tional status of the people for 
several centuries B.C. ? (Il¬ 
literacy.) 231-c. 

339. —What first attracted men to 

the plow and to a settled life? 
231-d. 

340. —Were ancient priests held by 

the people in awe and fear? 
If so, may it not have been 
for the general good to have 
it that way? 234-c. 

PRIEST OR KING? 

341. —Was there usually in ancient 

times a conflict between priest 
and king? Can you reason 
why? 234-d. 

342. —Did this antagonism some¬ 

times serve beneficent pur¬ 
poses for advancing civiliza¬ 
tion ? 234-a. 





18 How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 


343. —Which was more magnificent 

and powerful in ancient times, 
the palace of the king or the 
temple of the priest? 235-c. 

344. —Whose code of laws is the 

earliest known? (Hammu¬ 
rabi of Sumeria, perhaps 3000 
B.C.) 235-c. 

345. —What ancient rulers were too 

lofty in lineage to marry com¬ 
mon women, and hence mar¬ 
ried their own sisters? (Pha¬ 
raohs of Egypt.) 240-c. 

346. —What conditions made antag¬ 

onisms inevitable between an¬ 
cient kings and priests? 

347. —Which was usually the more 

powerful, especially in the 
earliest civilizations ? 

348. —What country was perhaps 

the last to believe in the di¬ 
vinity of kings? (Egypt.) 
242-c. 

349. —In the time of Alexander The 

Great what god-image was 
said to move its head and 
talk? 242-d. 

350. —What is said of slaves in an¬ 

cient Babylon? 248-d. 

351. —Why did slaves make good 

soldiers in ancient times? 
250-c. 

352. —What is said of hunting and 

capturing slaves by Pha¬ 
raohs? 250-cd. 

THE CAUSE OF ALL WARS 

353. —What would you say was the 

motive underlying all ancient 
conquests ? 

354. —Do you believe the motive has 

changed much in modern con¬ 
quests? 

355. —What one unfortunate human 

trait have you observed to be 
the cause of all war? 

356. —Would one be justified in say¬ 

ing that human history is a 
history of war? 


357. —Can you cite instances where 

war resulted in vast good to 
all humanity? 

358. —What lure did ancient 

monarchs offer mercenary 
troops ? 250-d. 

359. —Why would the history writ¬ 

ten by Herodotus be more 
valuable than one written 
from “priestly or court 
chronicle” data? 251-c. 

360. —Just how did Herodotus ob¬ 

tain materials for his history? 

253- abc. 

361. —From what you read of He¬ 

rodotus do you believe he 
wrote strict facts or was he 
somewhat sensational? 254-b. 

362. —How did the 5th century B.C. 

advance civilization rapidly? 

254- bc. 

363. —Under what guiding intelli¬ 

gence did primitive civiliza¬ 
tion receive its first growth? 

255- b. 

364. —What advantages to the peo¬ 

ple was the intellectual lead¬ 
ership of the priests? 255-a. 

365. —What general fact weakened 

this cultural dictatorship of 
the priesthood? 255-bc. 

366. —What human industry is the 

foundation of the social struc¬ 
ture of all civilization? 255-d. 

256- a. 

367. —In what industry were the 

first merchants engaged? 

257- a. 

368. —Of what race were the first 

merchant-traders of Babylo¬ 
nia and Assyria? (Jews.) 
257-a. 

369. —How early was usury prac¬ 

ticed? 257-b. 

370. —Was there a banking house 

in ancient Babylonia? 247-b. 

371. —What class eventually became 

the merchant class? 258-c. 





How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 19 


OUR “FIRST FAMILIES” 

372. —What was the only exclusive 

class of all these that did not 

intermarry with others in 

Egypt ? 259-c. 

373. —Is the idea of caste produc¬ 

tive of harmony among all 

classes ? 260-c. 

374. —In what country, in organized 

form, did class war first ap¬ 
pear? 260-d. 

375. —Name the four distinctive 

castes in ancient India? 261-d. 

376. —Who were the pariahs? 262-a. 

377. —Of what very ancient race are 

the pariahs of India? 262-c. 

378. —What in your judgment, is 

the prime cause of caste? 

379. —Who was Gautama, and when 

and where did he live? 262-c. 

380. —By what religion was Bud¬ 

dhism driven from India? 
263-a. 

381. —Does this mean that Bud¬ 

dhism is extinct? 263-a. 

382. —In what country have social 

and educational customs and 
national policies remained 
practically unchanged for 3000 
years and perhaps longer? 
263-cd. 

383. —What were the “six accom¬ 

plishments” in popular educa¬ 
tion in China in the time of 
Confucius ? 264-a. 

384. —Was it a vast benefit to all 

mankind that reading and 
writing ceased to Jbe a mys¬ 
tery in the exclusive posses¬ 
sion of priests and temples? 
365-b. 

385. —Describe briefly the achieve¬ 

ments of civilization from 
the skin-clad Neolithic com¬ 
munity down to the 4th cen¬ 
tury B.C. 265-66. 


THE STORY OF THE BIBLE 

386. —What is the most remarkable 

collection of ancient writings 
in the world? 269-ab. 

387. —By whom were the Jews de¬ 

ported to Babylonia 587 B.C.? 
269-c. 

388. —How long were the Jews in 

Babylonian captivity? 269-d. 

389. —Was the land of the ancient 

Jews rich in natural re¬ 
sources? 271-b. 

390. —Who were the founders of 

the Hebrew nation? 271-c. 

391. —The country we know as 

Palestine was known by 
what name in the time of 
Abraham and later? 272-a. 

392. —Who founded Tyre and 

Sidon ? 272-a. 

393. —Were the Jews and the 

Phoenicians probably re¬ 
lated? 272-a. 

394. —Who is the central figure of 

the book of Exodus ? 272-b. 

395. —What Biblical story of Moses 

is confirmed by very ancient 
Sumerian records ? 272-c. 

396. —Was the Promised Land ever 

completely in possession of 
the Hebrews ? 274-d. 

397. —Are the Jews a thoroughly 

unmixed race? 275-b. 

398. —With many nations the rule 

of the priesthood was super¬ 
seded by the rule of kings. 
Was this true of the Israel¬ 
ites? 277-ab. 

399. —What disaster came to Saul’s 

reign as king? 278-b. 

400. —What alliance . greatly 

strengthened David’s reign ? 

278- d. 

401. —Would David be counted a 

Christian king in this age? 

402. —What murderous conspiracy 

is revealed in the last re¬ 
corded speech of David ? 

279- b. 





20 How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 


403. —What king’s last recorded 

word is “blood”? 279-b. 

JERUSALEM IN ITS GLORY 

404. —Which was the larger and 

more magnificent, the palace 
which Solomon builded for 
himself or the Temple which 
he builded for Jehovah? 

279- d. 

405. —Was Solomon a polygamist? 

280- b. 

406. —Tell of the moral or religious 

influence of Solomon’s wives 
upon him. 280-c. 

407. —What motive appears for his 

taking certain wives? 280-c. 

408. —Did Solomon ever take as a 

wife a daughter of an Egyp¬ 
tian Pharaoh? 280-d. (Did 
it bring him reproach?) 

409. —What one word expresses the 

cause of the weakening and 
the rending of Solomon’s 
kingdom? 281-c. 

410. —Notwithstanding his crimes 

and his social looseness, what 
good things may be said of 
Solomon ? 282-a. 

411. —Compare the splendor of Sol¬ 

omon’s reign and his build¬ 
ings with those of the reigns 
of other sovereigns in other 
countries contemporary or 
nearly contemporary with 
him. 282-c. 

412. —To what was Jerusalem re¬ 

duced ? 282-c. 

413. —May it be truly said that Sol¬ 

omon’s reign ended the glory 
of the Hebrew people? 282-c. 

414. —What Biblical account is 

given of the destruction of 
Jerusalem and the Temple by 
Nebuchadnezzar and the tak¬ 
ing of the Jews into captivity 
to Babylon about 586 B.C.? 
284-ab. 


415. —When and where and under 

what conditions did the Jews 
gather materials for the Old 
Testament Scriptures? 285-a. 

416. —Where, probably, did the Jews 

get the Old Testament stories 
of Creation, The Flood, of 
Moses and Samson? 285-c. 

417. —Show how the idea grew 

among the Hebrews that they 
were the chosen people of 
God on earth? 285-d. 286-a. 

THE FIRST LITERATURE 

418. —What nation of people first 

became welded together in na¬ 
tional spirit by written litera¬ 
ture? (Jews.) 286-b. 

419. —Where, probably, did the 

Aryan language originate ? 
291-a. 

420. —Where, probably, was the 

horse first practically domesti¬ 
cated? 294-c. 

421. —What race were horse-using 

people, and what race were 
cow-using people? 296-d. 

422. —What people reckoned wealth 

by cows as we do by dollars? 

296- d. 

423. —What ancient people cremates 

their dead? 297-c. 

424. —What people buried their 

dead in a sitting posture ? 

297- c. 

425. —What people never built stone 

houses for themselves while 
living, but did build diminu¬ 
tive stone houses for their 
dead? 297-d. 298-a. 

426. —What people built Stone¬ 

henge of Britain? 298-a. 

427. —What is said of the Aryan 

tribesman’s passion for intox, 
icating drink? 298-c. 

428. —Did the singing of tribal 

songs and dramatic recitals 
by bards lead to a written 
literature ? 299-bc. 





How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 21 


429. —How can you account for the 

fact that the first literature of 
practically every people was 
poetry instead of prose? 300. 

430. —During how many centuries 

had the main events of 
Homer’s Iliad been verbally 
recited before it had perma¬ 
nent literary form? 300-c. 

431. —What ancient people de¬ 

stroyed the eyes of their 
poets to keep them from 
wandering away from the 
tribe ? 300-d. 

432. —Were the Greeks a nomadic 

people up to the time they 
first occupied the Grecian 
peninsula? 303-c. 

433. —What intelligent, ancient peo¬ 

ple had horses in battle and 
yet had no cavalry? 303-c. 

434. —Though ancient Greeks were 

sturdy fighters, were their 
armies distinguished in battle 
for military discipline? 303-c. 

THE DELPHIC ORACLE 

435. —To what original race did the 

Greeks belong? 309-a. 

436. —Did the Homeric poems have 

a nationally unifying effect 
upon Grecian civilization? 
309-b. 

437. —Was there a civilization in 

Greece prior to the Greeks? 

311- b. 312-abcd. 

438. —Did the Greeks create their 

own written alphabet? 311-c. 

439 . —Why was there no temple 

stage or priest - king period 
in early Grecian civilization? 

312- abcd. 

440. —In what restricted sense .were 

there priests in ancient 
Greece? 313-d. 


441. —What was the nature of the 

gods of Greece? 314-a. 

442. —Did the old Aryan gods work 

miracles or control men’s 
lives? 314-a. 

443. —Tell of the custom of priests 

and soothsayers consulting 
oracles in time of national 
distress 1000 B.C. 314-b. 

444. —As understood among 

Greeks, what was a tyrant? 
316-cd. 

445. —What distinction did Aris¬ 

totle make between king and 
tyrant? 317-b. 

446. —Did Greek slaves have any 

standing in the courts? 318-c. 

447. —Contrast modern “Imperial¬ 

ism” with Athenian “Impe¬ 
rialism.” 320-a. 

448. —What Athenian was immor¬ 

talized by ostracism? 321-bc. 

449. —What one intellectual instru¬ 

mentality more than any 
other influence held the 
Greek states together? (A 
common language.) 322-b. 

450. —Tell how the Olympic Games 

had a unifying effect among 
all Greek cities and states. 
322-c. 

451. —What sports or contests were 

indulged in Olympic Games? 

322- c. 

452. —Did the first Olympiad in 776 

B.C. become a historical start¬ 
ing point in Greek chronol¬ 
ogy ? 322-footnote. 

453. —Was there ever a limitation 

required as to the number of 
births in Athenian families ? 

323- b. 

THE PERSIAN AVALANCHE 

454. —What people were in posses¬ 

sion of the civilizations of As¬ 
syria and Babylon by 538 
B.C. ? 323-c. 





22 How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 


455. —Describe the method of at¬ 

tack or defense as practiced 
by the lion-hunters 2000 B.C. 
326-d. 

456. —Tell the story of the prepara¬ 

tions of Croesus, King of Ly¬ 
dia, for war against Cyrus, 
king of Persia. 330-bcd. 

457. —What argument did a wise 

counsellor of Croesus use to 
dissuade Croesus from mak¬ 
ing that war? 331-ab. 

458. —What strategy did Cyrus use 

to defeat the Lydian cavalry? 

331 -d. 

459. —Why would horses stampede 

before camels ? 332-b. 

460. —What well-known Egyptian 

conquest did Cambyses make? 

334- c. 

461. —What fate did Croesus finally 

meet? 334-d. (Is he the his¬ 
torical character about whom 
the common remark is so of¬ 
ten heard: “As rich as Croe¬ 
sus”?) 

462. —What was the extent of the 

Persian Empire under Da¬ 
rius? 335-ab. 

463. —How came Darius to attack 

European Greek settlements? 

335- c. 

464. —What kind of warfare did 

Darius practice in his at¬ 
tack on Greece? 340-c. 

465. —What city was the special ob¬ 

ject of attack? 340-c. 

466. —What is the name of this first 

famous battle fought between 
the Persians and the Athe¬ 
nians ? 340-c. 

467. —What was the peculiar method 

of attack by the Athenians? 
342-a. 

468. —What was the result of the 

battle of Marathon? 342-bc. 

469. —What king sat on a marble 

throne erected in the open on 
a hilltop so he might see his 
warships in action? 344-a. 


470. —Why did Xerxes weep on this 

occasion ? 344-a. 

471. —When was the battle of Ther¬ 

mopylae ? 345. 

472. —How is the Spartan Aristode- 

mus immortalized ? 345-c. 

473. —In what battle were thousands 

of men drowned because they 
didn’t know how to swim ? 
(Salamis.) 348-b. 

474. —About when did Herodotus 

finish his great ancient his¬ 
tory? 351-c. 

475. —Did Persia, after the death 

of Xerxes, attempt any fur¬ 
ther conquests in Europe? 
351-c. 

GREEK THOUGHT 

476. —About when did Greek litera¬ 

ture begin to develop perma¬ 
nently? 351-c. 

477. —What is the subject of Xeno¬ 

phon’s Anabasis? 352-a. 

478. —Who was the greatest and 

the wisest ruler in the history 
of Athens ? 352-c. 

479. —What two conditions during 

this time encouraged the cre¬ 
ation of a great literature? 
353-b. 

480. —By what name is the war 

between Athens and Sparta 
known ? 353-c. 

481. —What city seems to have de¬ 

veloped while Athens and 
Sparta were destroying each 
other? 353-d. 

482. —To what modern statesman 

may Pericles of Athens be 
fairly likened? 355-c. 

483. —What cultured woman gave 

Pericles her friendship and 
counsel? 356-a. 

484. —Why, probably, did Pericles 

not marry Aspasia? 356-a. 

485. —What imperishable benefac¬ 

tion did Pericles give to 
Athens ? 360-a. 





How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 23 


486. —What did Socrates believe to 

be the only possible virtue? 
361-d. 

487. —Socrates wrote nothing. What 

associate of his immortalized 
Socrates in written dialogues 
expressive of Socrates’ sys¬ 
tem of philosophy? 362-a. 

488. —What institution was founded 

by Plato? 362-a. 

489. —Who was the next great Gre¬ 

cian philosopher after Plato 
and Isocrates ? (Aristotle.) 
365-b. 

490. —What three things did he ap¬ 

prove that are renounced in 
our civilization ? 366-a. 

491. —To what sciences were the 

Epicureans and the Stoics 
respectively devoted? 368-a. 

492. —What was Plato’s estimate 

of the number of citizens in 
a perfect government? 370-c. 

493. —Did Plato really favor slav¬ 

ery? 371-c. 

494. —What great ancient philos¬ 

opher believed that the sun 
was as big as all Greece ? 

372- a. 

495 . —What great dual awakening 

occurred in Judea and in 
Athens during the 4th and 
the 5th centuries B.C.? 

373- abc. 

ALEXANDER THE GREAT 

496. —How does Philip of Mace- 

don rank among the mon- 
- archs of history? 375-b. 

497 . —What great Grecian philoso¬ 

pher was Philip’s intimate 
friend and counsellor? 375-c. 

498. —To what dissipation was 

Philip addicted? 375-d. 

499 . —What is said of Philip’s mil¬ 

itary organization? 376-d. 

500. —Was Alexander well educat¬ 

ed? 377-a. 


501. —How young was Alexander 

when his father Philip put 
him in military command? 
377-b. 

502. —What is said of Philip’s cav¬ 

alry? 379-ac. 

503. —Tell of Alexander’s catapults. 

380- a. 

504. —What was the great objec¬ 

tive of Philip’s ambitions ? 

381- a. 

505. —Tell of the family affairs of 

Philip. 381-bcd. 

506. —Was Alexander a worthy son? 

383-384. 

507. —Tell of the assassination of 

Philip. 384-bc. 

508. —What city in Greece did Alex¬ 

ander destroy utterly and bru¬ 
tally, so that the crime haunt¬ 
ed him? 386-bc. 387-c. 

509. —What military advantage did 

the Persians have over other 
peoples ? 387-d. 

510. —What structure built by Al¬ 

exander during the siege of 
Tyre still remains? 390-c. 

511. —What city did Alexander 

found at the Mouth of the 
Nile? 391-c. 

512. —What infatuation of his di¬ 

vine origin fastened itself up¬ 
on Alexander ? 392-abcd. 

513. —What great international is¬ 

sue did the Battle of Arbela 
determine? 

514. —Did Alexander seem to 

weaken in force of character 
after the Battle of Arbela? 
394-d. 

515. —At the age of 31 Alexander 

had been in undisputed pos¬ 
session of Persia. Had he 
exhibited any constructive 
statesmanship ? 398-c. 

516. —What incident was called 

“The Marriage of Europe 
and Asia?” 399-d. 





24 How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 


517. —Can you tell of the making 

of brick in China, 3rd cen¬ 
tury B.C. ? (Opposite page 

483.) 

518. —When, where and how did 

Alexander come to his 

death ? 404-ab. 

519. —What became of his em¬ 

pire ? 404-b. 

520. —In the time of Alexander 

was the world considered 
flat or round? 409. 

521. —How was Alexander hon¬ 

ored on coins for a hundred 
years after his death? 

THE START OF SCIENTIFIC 
RESEARCH 

522. —In the 3rd century B.C. what 

three great ideas began to 
dominate the thought of 
world leaders? 410-ab. 

523. —What condition gave Egypt 

at least a temporary ascend¬ 
ency on the Mediterranean? 
411-b. 

524. —Did Alexandria in Egypt 

grow to be a large city? 
411-b. 

525. —For all educated people for 

several centuries before and 
after Christ what was the 
dominant language? 412-c. 

526. —When, where and by whom 

was the first university in the 
world founded? 413-a. 

527. —What man among the Alex¬ 

andrian scientific researchers 
really devised the first steam 
engine? 413. 

528. —What question arose at the 

Alexandrian Museum con¬ 
cerning vivisection ? 414- 

abcd. 

529. —Tell of the great library of 

700,000 volumes founded by 
Ptolemy in Alexandria after 
the decay of the Museum. 
415-ab. 


530. —Describe the mechanical 

make-up of the books in this 
wonderful library. 415-b. 

531. —What territory did the known 

world include 250 B.C.? 417- 
map. 

532. —How, probably, did the 

Roman poets, Vergil and 
Horace, send forth many 
copies of their works? 417- 
footnote. 

533. —What probably delayed and 

prevented the practical use 
of printing for centuries ? 
418-d. 

534. —Where probably did paper 

first come from? 419-b. 

535. —Tell of the difficulties of get¬ 

ting an education during the 
few centuries immediately 
preceding Christ. 419-bc. 

536. —Tell of the first conceptions 

of immortality in profane 
history. 424-bc. 

200,000,000 WORSHIP HIM 

537. —What great founder of a re¬ 

ligion was born while Croe¬ 
sus was king of Lydia and 
while Cyrus was king of Per¬ 
sia, about the 6th century 
B.C. ? 428-d. 

538. —Where was he born? 428-d. 

539. —Of what race was he? 429-b. 

540. —By what name was his teach¬ 

ing known ? 429-b. 

541. —What form of literature only 

was known in India during 
the life of Gautama, by what 
name was it called, and who 
monopolized its wisdom ? 
429-c. 

542. —Tell of the oldest tree in the 

world? 434-bc. 

543. —Tell how Gautama came to 

be called Buddha. 434-c. 

544. —What is Buddha? 434-d. 

545. —Did Gautama put his teaching 

into writing? 435-b. 





How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 25 


546. —Had writing been invented 

and used in India in Gau¬ 
tama’s time? 435-b. 

547. —Are the teachings of Gautama 

at variance with modern 
thought? 435-cd. 

548. —According to Gautama to 

what are all the miseries of 
life due? (Selfishness.) 435-d. 

549. —With what strange biologi¬ 

cal idea was the Indian mind 
obsessed? (Cycles: Return 
again.) 438-bc. 

550. —Was Buddha (Gautama) be¬ 

lieved to be the son of a mor¬ 
tal father? (No.) 440-d. 

551. —What fanciful idea prevailed 

as to his origins? 441-a. 

552. —In what century did Bud¬ 

dhism reach a climax of 
wealth and power? (3rd cen¬ 
tury B.C.) 441-bc. 

553. —With what religion did Bud¬ 

dhism come into conflict? 
443-d. 

554 . —What remarkable pioneer 

work did Asoka, King of 
India, do for education? 
446-b. 

555. —What estimate is placed on 

Asoka as a monarch and 
man ? 444-c. 446-c. 

THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS 

556 —What very similar religion 
was already in China? 447-a. 

557. —Tell of Confucius, his cen¬ 

tury, his teachings. 447-a. 
448-abcd. 

558. —Which was the more pow¬ 

erful influence on Chinese 
life, the character of Con¬ 
fucius or his teachings? 45-d. 

559. —Has Buddhism # undergone 

much change since Gau¬ 
tama? 453 -abcd. 

560. —What two great religions 

flourished side by side in 
India? 454-cd. 


561. —Which one drove the other 

out of India? 454-d. 

562. —Is Buddhism extinct on earth 

to-day? 454-d. Map 445. 

563. —What were the two great 

western republics of ancient 
times ? 457-b. 

564. —What was the chief national 

industry of the early Latins? 

459- d. 

565. —Who was the chief god in 

early Latin worship? 459-d. 

THE FOUNDING OF ROME 

566. —To what local fact does Rome 

owe its founding where it is? 

460- a. 

567. —How many hills were near by? 

460-ab. 

568. —When was Rome founded? 

460-d. 

569. —In what poem does Macaulay 

refer to these ancient Etrus¬ 
can monarchs, The Tarquins? 
463-a. 

570. —How does legend say the 

cackling of geese once saved 
Rome from destruction ? 
463-d. 

571. —Who, after and pending peace, 

threw his sword into the 
scales with the gold ransom 
and said: “Woe to the Van¬ 
quished”? 464-b. 

572. —Tell how Rome conquered 

Pyrrhus of Epirus? 465-abcd. 

573. —How many inhabitants had 

the Roman state in the 5th 
century B.C. ? 466-b. And 

how many in the census of 
265 B.C.? 473-b. 

574. —During the 3rd, 4th and 5th 

centuries B.C. what constant 
clash of interests was going 
on between classes in the 
Roman state ? 467-d. 468-a. 

575. —Define “Patrician” and “ple¬ 

beian.” 





26 How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 


576. —Do you trace any resem- 587.- 

blance between the modern 
industrial strike and the re¬ 
bellion of plebeians against 
patrician unfairness in Rome? 

469. 588.- 

577. —Why did plebeians demand 

that laws be written ? 470-b. 

578. —What was the Tarpeian Rock? 

470-d. > 589.- 

579. —Were there communists in 

Rome 400 B.C.? 472-a. 

580. —Were printing and paper 590.- 

available during the centuries 
B.C.? 473-a. 591.- 

581. —What two modern devices, 

one an invention and the 
other a form of government, 592.- 
might have enabled Rome 
to perpetuate herself as Mis¬ 
tress of the World? 474-d. 
475-abcd. 593.- 

582. —What was ancient Rome’s 

only method of communicat¬ 
ing with any individual or 594.- 
body of citizens? 475-bc. 

THE FALL OF CARTHAGE 595.— 


583. —What is said of the horrors 

of the First Punic War? 596.- 
480-c. 

584. —What simple naval device 

by the Romans on their war 
vessels in the First Punic 
War not only gave victory 597.- 
to Rome but changed the 
fate of the world? 481-d. 

585. —When and what was the 

greatest naval battle of an¬ 
tiquity, and between what 
countries was it fought? 598.- 
482-a. 

586. —What people overran Italy 

from the North, and how 
many of them did the Italian 
Army destroy in the battle 
of Telamon? 483-d. 


-Why was it necessary for 
Italy’s peace and prosperity 
for her to occupy the whole 
of Italy up to the Alps? 
483-d. 

-Who was the leading mili¬ 
tary genius of Carthage 
during the Second Punic 
War? (Hamilcar.) 484-d. 
-What is said of his son, 
Hannibal, as a dangerous 
enemy of Rome? 484-d. 

-Tell of Hannibal’s vow 
against Rome ? 485-a. 

-Was the conquest of Carthage 
by Rome war or murder ? 

487- b. 

-Tell of Hannibal’s victory 
over the Romans in the 
battle of Cannae, 216 B.C. 

488- b. 

-Describe the military tactics 
of the Roman general, Fa- 
bius. 490. 

-What became of Hannibal 
after he lost the 2nd Punic 
War? 495-d. 

-What shameless pretext did 
the Romans use for bringing 
on the 3rd Punic War? 496-b. 
-What final and preposterous 
demand was made by Rome 
for the actual moving of 
Carthage to an island site? 
496-d. 

-When Scipio finally stormed 
and took Carthage in the 
3rd Punic War, how many 
Carthaginians had survived 
out of half a million popula¬ 
tion ? 497-c. 

-What class of Roman citi¬ 
zens through many battles 
and through many wars, 
more than any other class, 
had established the great¬ 
ness of the Roman Empire? 
(Farmers.) 498-d. 





How Matty of These Questions Can You Answer? 27 


THE ROMAN EMPIRE 

599. —At this time (about 200 

B.C.) had money come into 
general use ? 499-c. 

600. —Were there any newspapers 

then ? 499-d. 

601. —How then was information of 

affairs given out? 499-foot- 
note. 

602. —What brutal Etruscan sport 

was adopted in Rome in the 
3rd century B.C. ? 502-b. 

603. —What kind of morals mus. 

have prevailed in Rome to 
make a sport of gladiatorial 
butchery? 504-ab. 

604. —What effect did the life of 

Jesus have on gladiatorial 
fights and slavery? 504-b. 

605. —Were Roman voters organ¬ 

ized like Tammany in New 
York? 507-b. 

606. —Did the invention and use of 

money stimulate and facili¬ 
tate business in ancient times? 
509-b. 

607. —Ancient Babylon had many 

shrewd business men. Is it 
probable that they had banks 
there 1000 B.C.? 509-d. 

608. —What is said of China’s re¬ 

taining a system of business 
by trade and barter rather 
than with money as a me¬ 
dium of exchange? 510-a. 

609. —What king died 133 B.C. 

and by will left his whole 
country as a legacy to Rome? 
512-a. 

610. —What other king bequeathed 

a large and venerable coun¬ 
try to Rome 81 B.C., the gift 
being actually declined by 
Rome? 512-c. 


611. —What Roman leader was as¬ 

sassinated in the streets of 
Rome with 3000 others, his 
head having been cut off 
and his brain cavity filled 
with lead to make it weigh 
heavy for a reward of its 
weight in gold? 514-bc. 

612. —What army once used the 

then extinct crater of Ve¬ 
suvius as a fortress? 518-b. 

613. —When and where and why 

was the greatest number of 
persons crucified in all hu¬ 
man history? 518-bc. 

614. —Where and what was The 

Appian Way? 463. Map. 

615. —Has the character of Julius 

Caesar probably been ful- 
somely overdrawn by his¬ 
torians ? 523-bc. 

616. —Give your own estimate of 

Caesar’s character. See 524- 
525. 

617. —What effect did the destruc¬ 

tion of Carthage and Cor¬ 
inth by Rome have on Medi¬ 
terranean naval commerce? 
525-c. 

618. —Tell of the influence of Cleo¬ 

patra upon Julius Caesar. 

524- a. 525-c. 

THE RULE OF THE CAESARS 

619. —Was Julius Caesar obsessed 

with the idea that he was a 
god-king, just as Alexander 
The Great had been obsessed? 

525- c. 

620. —In reality why was Julius 

Caesar assassinated? 525-bc. 

621. —Who was the ringleader of 

the murderers of Julius Cae¬ 
sar? 526-c. 





28 How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 


622. —During the next decade after 

the death of Julius Caesar 
what great Roman orator and 
senator stood almost alone as 
an advocate of high Roman 
ideals? (Cicero.) 527-ab. 

623. —When, in 32 B.C., Octavian 

determined to eliminate An¬ 
tony and Cleopatra from 
Roman affairs, what battle 
was fought, describe that 
battle, and what was the re¬ 
sult of it? 528-abc. 

624. —To what form of govern¬ 

ment has modern civiliza¬ 
tion tended? (Republican.) 
531-d. 

625. —How long did the Roman 

Empire last? 537-b. 

626. —Who was Roman Emperor 

during the brief ministry of 
Christ? 539-a. (Tiberius 
Caesar.) Also at his birth? 
(Augustus Caesar.) 

627. —What Roman Emperor mur¬ 

dered his own mother and his 
own wife? (Nero.) 539-c. 

628. —Was Nero popular in Rome? 

If not, was his unpopularity 
due to his crimes or to 
other things ? 540-b. 

629. —What Roman Emperor com¬ 

mitted suicide when a de¬ 
crepit old man borne on a lit¬ 
ter led an army from Spain 
against him? 540-b. 

630. —What Roman Emperor was 

the last of the Caesars ? 
540-c. 

631. —What was the meaning of 

Caesar? (Family name of 
certain Roman Emperors, like 
Smith, Brown, etc.) 540-c. 

632. —Under what Emperor did the 

Roman Empire reach its 
greatest territorial extent? 
(Trajan.) 542-b. 

633. —What were the two cen¬ 

turies of Roman peace and 
prosperity? 544-c. 


634. —How did scientific culture 

in Rome under the Caesars 
compare with that of Athens 
under Pericles nearly 600 
years before? 548-a. 

635. —How and why did the per¬ 

sonnel of the Roman Legions 
endanger the stability of 
Rome? 551-a. 

636. —Among what class of people, 

chiefly, did Christianity spread 
at first? 555-c. 

637. —Why did science and litera¬ 

ture and education decay in 
the Roman Empire? 557-d. 

638. —Where were the Vandals 

from, and when did they 
capture and pillage Rome ? 
(455 B.C.) 572-c. 

639. —What Roman Emperor per¬ 

manently transferred the seat 
of Government to Byzantium? 
312 A.D. 578-c. 579-a. 

640. —When Julius Caesar con¬ 

quered Britain he carried 
the Latin language there. 
What other language ban¬ 
ished the Latin from Brit¬ 
ain ? 582-d. 

641. —In what country did Chris¬ 

tianity arise? 585-b. 

642. —Under what conditions did 

the Jews look for The Mes¬ 
siah? 585-d. 

643. —Did the majority of Jewry 

live in Judea or did they ever 
come from Judea? (No.) 
586-bc. 

644. —What two words contain 

the secret of Jewish power? 
(Racial solidarity.) 586-c. 

THE LIFE OF JESUS 

645. —What is the main source of 

our knowledge of Jesus 
Christ? 590-ab. 





How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 29 


646. —Which of the Four Gospels 

do critics regard as the 
most trustworthy account of 
the life and words of Jesus? 
590-b. 

647. —What teaching of Jesus an¬ 

gered the Jews? 593-c. 

648. —Upon what fact did Jewish 

opposition to Jesus rest? 
597-ab. 

649. —When the teachings of Jesus 

come into contact with priest¬ 
craft, must one or the other 
perish? 578-d. 

650. —Compare the moral code of 

the Chinese Mo Ti of the 4th 
century B.C. with that of 
Jesus. 599-bcd. 600-a. 

651. —Is there really any antagon¬ 

ism between religion and sci¬ 
ence? 601-a. 

652. —To what man, more than to 

any other, does the gospel 
of Christ owe its early 
spread? 606-c. 

653. —What Roman Emperor insti¬ 

tuted the first official perse¬ 
cution of Christians? (De- 
cius.) 612-a. 

654. —What was the real issue, 303 

A.D., in the persecution of 
Christians by the Roman 
Emperor Diocletian (god- 
king) ? 612-a. 

655. What test of loyalty as 

Roman citizens did Diocle¬ 
tian demand of Christians ? 
(Sacrifice to the Emperor.) 
612-b. 

656. —Was the English historian, 

Gibbon, who wrote “The De¬ 
cline and Fall of the Roman 
Empire/' favorable to Chris¬ 
tianity? 614-a. 

657. —What great Roman Emperor 

in 337 A.D. made Christianity 
the official religion of the Em¬ 
pire? 613-d. 


658. —When, where and by whom 

called was the first com¬ 
plete general council of the 
entire Christian world? 612-d. 
618-c. 

659. —What great Christian creed 

was ordained by this council? 
618-b. 

660. —What terrible invading con¬ 

querors held Rome and all 
Italy in their power in the 5th 
century A.D. (Ostrogoths.) 
Map, 625. 

661. —How long and over what 

period did the Roman Empire 
at Constantinople endure? 
(312 to 1453 A.D.) 634-b. 

662. —What is said of the wealth 

and power of Constantinople? 
634-b. 

663. —After Christianity had routed 

the idea of a god-king in 
Rome, who was the only other 
reigning god-monarch in all 
the world ? 637-a. 

664. —What remarkable treaty was 

made in 422 A.D. between 
Constantinople and Persia ? 
637-a. 

665. —What great decisive battle 

was fought at Nineveh 637 
A.D. ? 639-ab. 

666. —What religion prevailed in 

Babylon and Nineveh from 
about the 6th century B.C. ? 

644- d. 

667. —What are the records called 

in which the teachings of Zo¬ 
roaster are preserved? 644-d. 

668 . —What people neither burn 

nor bury their dead, but lay 
out the dead bodies on tow¬ 
ers for vultures to feast on? 

645- b. 

WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF THE 
BACKWARDNESS OF CHINA? 

669. —When did the drinking of 

tea become a custom in 
China? 651-b. 





30 How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 


670. —What is said of Chinese 

painting and decorative art 
in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th cen¬ 
turies A.D.? 651-c. 

671. —China led the world in cul¬ 

ture for the first 600 years 
A.D. What facts placed the 
Western World in the lead 
from the 6th century on ? 

656- b. 

672. —Did the Chinese use gun¬ 

powder and coal and gas heat¬ 
ing long before they were used 
in Europe? 656-c. 

673. —Did the Chinese in ancient 

times know bridge-building 
and hydraulic engineering? 

657- a. 

674. —Notwithstanding ages of cul¬ 

ture, why have the Chinese 
masses remained illiterate? 
657-b. 

675. —Which is the older—Japanese 

or Chinese writing? 659-b. 

676. —Has China an alphabetical 

language? 661-bc. 

677. —What fact stopped Chinese 

progress for more than a 
thousand years—even down 
to the 19th century? 661-d. 

678. —Is it probable that the Chi¬ 

nese knew of the mariner’s 
compass in ancient times ? 
565-footnote. 

679. —Though on Chinese rivers and 

along Chinese coasts there 
were thousands of boats and 
ships, for many hundreds of 
years, was China a great mari¬ 
time country? 662-a. 

680. —Did a Chinese Emperor ever 

forbid his subjects to travel 
in foreign lands? 665-a. 

681. —When and in what city of 

what country was Muham¬ 
mad born? 675-a. 

682. —What very presumptuous title 

did he assume for himself ? 
671-a. 


683. —How came Mecca to become 

a “pilgrim city”? 674-bc. 

684. —Tell of Muhammad’s family 
. standing, his education and 

marriage. 675-a. 

685. —What did he admit for Jesus 

and Abraham, and what did 
he claim for himself? 676-c. 

686. —Was he a polytheist or a 

monotheist? 676-b. 

687. —After ten years of preaching, 

what misfortunes came upon 
him? 677-d. 

688. —Tell of the flight (The He¬ 

gira) of Muhammad from 
Mecca? 678-d. 

689. —Was Muhammad’s character 

comparable to that of Christ? 
684-b. 

THE RISING TIDE OF MUHAM¬ 
MADANISM 

690. —How many Muhammadans 

are there in the world to¬ 
day? 685-d. 

691. —Did Muhammad teach uni¬ 

versal race equality? 686-d. 
687-a. 

692. —Has Islam any priests 

among her 300,000,000 mem¬ 
bers ? 687-b. 

693. —Mention some commendable 

things in the Muhammadan 
doctrine and their probable 
effect. 687-bcd. 

694. —What race dominated Islam 

from the beginning? 696-d. 

695. —What has kept Islam rent 

and weakened for centuries ? 
698-d. 699-ab. 

696. —What book contains the writ¬ 

ten gospel of Muhammad, and 
in what language was it orig¬ 
inally written ? 702-b. 

697. —W hat religious oligarchy 

feasted on a table made of 
the dead bodies of slaughtered 
human beings? 703-bc. 





How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 31 


698. —What language practically su¬ 

perseded the Greek in every 
country where Muhammadism 
held sway? 704-bc. 

699. —Who was Haroun-Al-Ras- 

chid? (786-809.) 704-d. 

700. —In what romantic literature 

is his fame immortalized? 
704-d. 

701. —Tell something of the splen¬ 

dor of his capital (Bagdad) 
and of his reign. 705-abc. 

702. —What mathematical science is 

due to Arabian genius? 711-a. 

703. —In what other knowledge did 

the Arabians excel? 711-abc. 

704. —Did Arabian surgeons about 

the 6th century A.D. use an¬ 
esthetics? 711-b. 

705. —Did the church in Europe 

(not Muhammadanism) ever 
forbid the practice of medi¬ 
cine? Why? 711-bc. 

706. —What people checked the 

Muhammadan invasion of 
Europe? 717-ab. 

707. —What probably would have 

been the Muhammadan con¬ 
quest if they had not thus 
checked the invasion? 

THE DAYS OF FEUDALISM 

708. —What is a fief? 719-d. 720-ab. 

709. —Tell the gradations in titles 

of feudalism. 720-cd. 

710. —What relation did the king 

have to feudal landlordism, 
and from what source did he 
hold his right? 720-d. 

711. —What was the first kingdom 

to emerge into order and 
stability from the chaos of 
European civilization in the 
early centuries of the Chris¬ 
tian Era? 721-b. 

712. —What two great modern Eu¬ 

ropean national powers were 
derived from the Frankish 
kingdom? 721-be. 


713. —Who was Charles Martel, and 

what great achievement did 
he accomplish in European 
civilization ? 722-b. 

714. —When Pope Gregory the 

Great saw English boys sold 
as slaves, and was told that 
they were Angles, what did 
he say? 725-c. 

715. —What is said of the Venerable 

Bede, the Father of English 
History? 725-d. 

716. —Who was Charlemagne, and 

in what century did he live? 
727-bc. 

717. —Were nations ever made 

Christian by the sword? 727- 
cd. 

718. —Give examples of such con¬ 

quests to Christianity and to 
Muhammadism ? 727-cd. 

719. —Tell of the Vikings and 

their achievements? 728-cd. 
729-ad. 

720. —What is said of “Imitation 

Caesars,” beginning with 
Charlemagne, and playing 
fantastic tricks for a thou¬ 
sand years? 731-cd. 

721. —During the same one thou¬ 

sand years what ceaseless 
struggle was going on for 
the control of the world? 

732- a. 

722. —What was the Pope of 

Rome’s view of this mat¬ 
ter? 732-b. 

723. —What was the palace of the 

Pope called in earlier cen¬ 
turies of the Christian Era 
and what is it called now? 

733- footnote. 

724. —What Emperor’s skull was 

used as a drinking cup by the 
King of Bulgaria in the 9th 
century A.D.? 734-b. 





32 How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 


725. —The Roman Empire may be 

said to have perished about 
476 A.D. What was it called 
when it rose again in 800 
A.D. ? 734-bc. 

726. —Why couldn’t the Germans 

hold Italy permanently? 

734- c. 

727. —Outline Charlemagne’s Em¬ 

pire at the time of his death. 

735- Map. 

728. —What class of men, only, 

were scholars in the time of 
Charlemagne ? 736-c. 

729. —What book influenced all of 

Charlemagne’s legislation? 
737-c. 

730. —What religious requirement 

did Charlemagne make of 
all his subjects? 737-c. 

731. —What vicious patrician woman 

imprisoned Pope John X and 
made her own illegitimate son 
Pope in 928 A.D.? 74-c. 

THE NORMAN CONQUEST 

732. —What may be said to have 

caused the Crusades? 743-c. 

733. —What peoples in the 5th and 

6 th centuries A.D. conquered 
England? 744-b. 

734. —What people overran Eng¬ 

land in the 8th and 9th cen¬ 
turies? 744-b. 

735. —In 1016 A.D. what Danish 

king reigned over England, 
Denmark and Norway? 
744-bc. 

736. —Is it probable that the sub¬ 

jects of Canute the Great 
crossed the Atlantic to 
America? 744-c. 

737. —What people overran Eng¬ 

land in 1066 A.D.? 744-c. 

738. —Were all the peoples who 

overran England, though of 
different names, very prob¬ 
ably of one stock of North¬ 
men? 744-c. 


739. —After the Battle of Hastings 

in Britain, 1066 A.D., what 
British title was given to Wil¬ 
liam of Normandy? 744-c. 

740. —Was celibacy always required 

of the Popes of Rome? 752-b. 

741. —In what century A.D. was cel¬ 

ibacy first compulsory among 
the Popes and who imposed 
this requirement? 751-d. 

752- ad. 

742. —Why was celibacy of Popes 

required? 752-b. 

743. —When did the Seljuk Turks 

take and destroy the Holy 
Sepulchre in Jerusalem? 

753- c. 

744. —What report did Peter the 

Hermit make to his people 
after his pilgrimage to Jeru¬ 
salem? 753-c. 

THE CRUSADES 

745. —What is a Crusade? 

746. —Tell of the First Crusade 

1097 A.D. under Godfrey of 
Bouillon. 756-bcd. 

747. —What English king led the 

Third Crusade? 759-d. 

748. —Did this Crusade capture Je¬ 

rusalem? 760-a. 

749. —What made the power of ex- 

communication ridiculous dur¬ 
ing the Third Crusade? 760-c. 

750. —What venerable relics were 

said to have been brought 
back by the Crusaders? 761-b. 

751. —According to legend where 

had fragments of the True 
Cross been sacredly kept? 
761-b. 

752. —When did the Vatican be¬ 

come the papal palace, and 
have the Popes invariably 
occupied the palace in Rome? 
763-footnote. 





How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 33 


753. —What Pope’s educational at¬ 

tainments in the 13th cen¬ 
tury A.D. won for him the 
title of “The Amazement of 
the World”? 766-b. 

754. —Tell of the reply made by 

Emperor Frederick II when 
Pope Gregory IX excom¬ 
municated him. 767-b. 

755. —What extraordinary proposal 

did the Emperor Frederick II 
make to the ruling powers 
of Europe concerning church 
property? 767-d. 

756. —Who introduced Arabic nu¬ 

merals and algebra into Chris¬ 
tian Europe? 768-b. 

757 . —What expedient did Frederick 

II resort to when there was 
a shortage in gold? 768-d. 

758. —Does it seem that during the 

Dark Ages the church sought 
to develop its own power in 
the world rather than to 
Christianize the souls of men? 
770-d. 

759. —Does it seem that the 

church’s slaughter of here¬ 
tics in the 13th century was 
evidence of its own destruction 
and of the fear of destruction 
by other beliefs? 771-b. 

760. —Did the religious councils of 

the church claim exclusive 
right to knowledge ? 772-c.. 

761. —What was the church’s atti¬ 

tude toward popular science? 
772-c. 

762. —Did church dignitaries have a 

contempt for the idea of com¬ 
mon men being educated? 
772-d. 

763. —Tell of the sale of indulgences 

by the church in the 16th 
century. 773-ab. 

764. —When was the Inquisition of 

the Romish Church instituted? 
775-c. 


765. —What is said of the wholesale 

butchery and horrible tortur¬ 
ing of heretics by the Church 
of Rome in the 14th and 15th 
centuries? 776-a. 

766. —What was John Wycliff’s at¬ 

titude toward the Romish 
Church? 776-abc. 

767. —What vengeful deed was per¬ 

petrated on Wycliff’s bones in 
1428 by Pope Martin V’s or¬ 
der as an official act of the 
church? 776-cd. 

768. —At what time of life are 

Popes usually elected and 
what average length of term 
have they served? 776-d. 

769. —What emperor, after attempt¬ 

ing to depose the Pope was 
compelled by Pope Hildebrand 
to do penance for three days 
and nights in sackcloth and 
to go barefooted in the snow? 
777-b. 

770. —Tell briefly the reason for the 

loss of power by the church 
in the 13th century. 778-b. 

771. —What Pope in 1300 A.D. held 

a jubilee in which two assist¬ 
ants were kept busy with 
rakes gathering in the offer¬ 
ings deposited at the tomb of 
St. Peter? 779-bc. 

772. —What Frenchman was elected 

Pope and served as such with¬ 
out ever going to Rome ? 
780-bc. 

773. —Tell of the election of an anti¬ 

pope Pope. 780-c. 

THE CONQUEST OF JENGIS- 
KAHN 

774. —When did the Mongols come 

into history? 784-a. 

775. —What land was the original 

home of Hun and Turk? 
784-a. 






34 How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 


776.—What is true of all empires 789.—What three centuries were 


founded by nomads? 790-bc. 

777. —What Moslem city was cap¬ 

tured and had its entire popu¬ 
lation massacred by Hulagu, 
brother of Jengis Khan? 
(Bagdad.) 792-d. 

778. —Where did Marco Polo go 

through the Mongol Empire 
in the 13th century? 795-Map. 

779. —Tell how “The Travels of 

Marco Polo” came to be pub¬ 
lished. 797-bc. 

780. —How did this book lead to the 

discovery of America? 797-bc. 

781. —When did Constantinople fall 

to the Turks? 804-bc. 

782. —What northern people con¬ 

quered China about 1644 and 
ruled it under one dynasty of 
emperors down to 1918 A.D.? 
808-b. 

783. —How can you account for the 

fact that the Chinese who 
were compelled by their Man- 
chu conquerors to wear pig¬ 
tails as a sign of subjugation, 
actually resented the order of 
the president of the new Re¬ 
public to abolish the queue in 
1912? 

784. —In what countries has hatred 

between town and country 
been bitter for a thousand 
years? 808-d. 

785. —When Jengis Khan first in¬ 

vaded China, what feeling led 
him seriously to consider the 
utter destruction of all towns 
and settlements? 811-a. 

786. —What army was replenished 

constantly by the purchase 
and training of boy slaves? 
811-cd. 

787. —Who was Timurlane? 812-a. 

788. —What conquerer made a pyra¬ 

mid of 70,000 skulls? 812-b. 


the Golden Period of the 
rule of Mongolian peoples? 
821-b. 

790. —Did Nomadism ever domi¬ 

nate the known world? 821-b. 

THE RENAISSANCE 

791. —What was The Renaissance? 

821-footnote. 

792. —What inevitable tendency has 

characterized every monarchy 
and every kingly dynasty in 
history? 825-abc. 

793. —What class, usually, became 

the resurrectors of decayed 
monarchies ? 825-b. 

794. —What was early Greek educa¬ 

tion limited to the aristoc¬ 
racy ? 828-c. 

795. —What governmental ideal has 

been the heart-hunger of the 
world for a thousand years? 

829-ab. 

796. —What is the one practical 

method to develop the mod¬ 
ern ideal of government of 
universal recognition of in- 
viduals and to secure universal 
cooperation of the people? 

829- d. 830-a. 

797. —What kind of vote, only, com¬ 

bines power with safety? 

830- a. 

798. —What was the church’s con¬ 

ception of the purpose of 
education? 830-c. 

799. —Who were the two greatest 

educators of the Middle Ages? 

830- bc. 

800. —What were the earlier at¬ 

tempts to restore Christian 
simplicity in the 13th century? 

831- b. 

801. —How did celibacy come to be 

imposed on Catholic priests? 

832- ab. 





How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 35 


802. —What was Wycliffe’s purpose 

in translating the Bible into 
the speech of the common 
people ? 832-c. 

803. —Wycliffe, an Englishman, was 

a Catholic priest. What was 
his attitude toward the cere¬ 
mony or sacrament of mass? 
832-c. 

804. —What was the church belief 

about the bread changing its 
substance and becoming the 
actual body of Christ in Mass ? 
832-c. 

805. —What is the Protestant view 

about this change of nature 
of bread and wine? 833-a. 

806. —What Bohemian university 

professor preached the same 
remonstrance that Wycliffe 
had preached? 833-c. 

807. —What horrible death, 1415, did 

the Church of Rome visit 
upon John Huss for not be¬ 
lieving as the church de¬ 
manded? 833-d. 834. 

808. —What first religious war was 

precipitated by this burning of 
men for not believing as the 
church required? 834-b. 

809. —What. Pope ordered the de¬ 

struction of all followers of 
Wycliffe and Huss in 1420? 

810. —What great doctrine forces 

itself upon every people who 
go back to the fundamentals 
of Christianity? 836-a. 

THE BLACK DEATH 

811. —What pestilence came near to 

annihilating the race in Eu¬ 
rope in the 13th century? 
836-ab. 

812. —Tell of its ravages at Oxford 

and in all England. 836-bc. 

813. —How many people died of 

Black Death in all Europe? 
836-c. 


814. —How did Black Death origi¬ 

nate ? 836-footnote. 

815. —What achievement following 

the manufacture of paper in 
Europe greatly stimulated re¬ 
ligious thought ? 842-d. 

816. —What general educational up¬ 

lift also followed? 842-d. 
843-a. 

817. —What languages that had been 

languages of war and strife 
now became languages of cul¬ 
ture ? 843-ab. 

818. —What special protest was 

made against the Pope at this 
time ? 844-b. 

819. —What great hope lodged in 

the souls of men, religiously 
speaking? 846-a. 

820. —Who was the foremost 

champion of this hope in 
Germany ? 846-a. 

821. —Of what nationality was Ig¬ 

natius Loyola? 847-b. 

822. —Tell of his study and fasting 

and preparation for the priest¬ 
hood. 848-bcd. 849-ab. 

823. —Tell of the founding of the 

Order of Jesuits by Loyola. 
849-b. 

824. —What is said of the excel¬ 

lence of the Jesuit schools? 

849- c. 

825. —Of what religious order were 

the early missionaries of the 
Catholic church in India and 
in North America? 849-c. 

826. —What effect did the excel¬ 

lence of Jesuit schools have 
on Protestants ? 849-d. 

827. —What great work was done 

by the Council of Trent ? 

850- a. 

828. —Did the Jesuit order probably 

save the Catholic church from 
utter decay? 850-b. 





36 How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 


THE FORERUNNERS OF 
MODERN SCIENCE 

829. —What solemn - charge did 

Roger Bacon give the world? 
856-c. 

830. —What four chief sources of 

ignorance did he denounce? 
856-c. 

831. —What two great ideas of mod¬ 

ern science are credited to the 
Florentine painter, Leonardo 
da Vinci? 858-c. 

832. —What Polish astronomer made 

the first clear analysis of the 
movements of the heavenly 
bodies? (1473-1543.) 858-c. 

833. —What scientist contemporary 

with Shakespeare was the 
founder of the science of dy¬ 
namics? 858-c. 

834. —Tell of some of his experi¬ 

ments and inventions. 859-a. 

835. —What remarkable anti-scien¬ 

tific attitude did the Roman 
church take concerning Ga¬ 
lileo’s estimate of the relative 
size of the earth, and what 
action did it take against 
him? 859-ab. 

836. —Who discovered the law of 

gravitation ? 859-c. 

837. —What was Bacon’s greatest 

service to science? 859-d. 

838. —What great modern scientific 

society came into existence in 
1662 as a result of “The New 
Atlantis”? 860-a. 

839. —What wonderful physiologi¬ 

cal discovery was made by 
the great anatomist Harvey? 
(1578-1657.) 860-b. 

840. —What remark does Charles 

Dickens make in his “Amer¬ 
ican Notes” concerning swine 
in America? 864-footnote. 

841. —Was Christopher Columbus 

wealthy? 869-c. 

842. —Of what city was he a native? 

869-b. 


843. —What king betrayed Colum¬ 

bus’s confidence? 869-c. 

THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA 

844 . —When did Columbus discover 

America? 870-c. 

845. —What did he take with him on 

his return to Spain? 870-c. 

846. —Did he ever know he had 

discovered America? 872-a. 

847. —What Portuguese sailor cir¬ 

cumnavigated the globe about 
1520? 872-b. 

848. —To what country had the Pope 

of Rome given a monopoly of 
all discoveries in America? 
(Spain.) 

849. —Of what race probably, were 

the aborigines found in Amer¬ 
ica by the Spaniards and how 
did the Spaniards treat them? 
873-bc. 

850. —Upon what did the aborigines 

of the central plains of Amer¬ 
ica subsist? 874-b. 

851. —Did the Indians who became 

adept horsemen have horses 
when Columbus discovered 
America? 874-b. 

852. —What Spanish adventurer de¬ 

stroyed the Aztecs? 875-a. 

853. —What Spanish adventurer de¬ 

stroyed Peruvian civilization? 
875-c. 

854. —Tell of the life of Machiavelli. 

(1469-1527.) 879-abcd. 

855. —What historical character is 

idealized in Machiavelli’s “The 
Prince”? 882-b. 

856. —Tell of the life of Caesar Bor¬ 

gia. 880-ab. 

857. —When did Switzerland become 

a republic? 882-d. 

858. —What German dynasty, after 

endeavoring to overawe the 
Swiss, was successfully and 
permanently renounced by the 
Swiss ? 883-abc. 






How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 37 


859. —Where, originally, did the Red 

Cross come from? 883-c. 

860. —While some ruling families 

have fought their way to 
power, how did the Hapsburg 
family win theirs ? 884-a. 

861. —What man inherited most of 

America ? 883-d. 884-abc. 

THE DAWN OF PROTES¬ 
TANTISM 

862. —For what special purpose did 

the Romish Church sell the 
indulgences against which 
Martin Luther protested? 
887-b. 

863. —Why did Martin Luther pro¬ 

test against the levity and 
worldly splendor of the papa¬ 
cy? 887-bc. 

864. —What Pope asked him to re¬ 

cant? 887-c. 

865. —To what court did Charles V, 

Emperor of Germany, sum¬ 
mon Luther? (Diet of Worms 
on Rhine.) 887-c. 

866 . —When Luther refused to re¬ 

cant at this council what was 
the only reason why he was 
not burnt as Huss had been 
burnt? 887-d. 

867. —Did Charles V, Emperor of 

Germany, side with Luther 
or with the Pope? 888-a. 

868 . —For what service did Henry 

VIII, king of England, win 
from the Pope the title of 
“Defender of the Faith”? 
891-a. 

869. —Why did Henry VIII after¬ 

wards turn Protestant against 
the Pope? 891-b. 

870. —What countries had already 

turned Protestant? 891-b. 

871. —What is said of the art of 

working precious metals in 
the 16th century? 893-c. 


872. —What horrible order had 

Charles V, Catholic Emperor 
of Germany, once sent forth 
for the destruction of heretics 
in the Netherlands, — even 
those who repented? 894-b. 

873. —What retired emperor of Ger¬ 

many had a mania for attend¬ 
ing funerals, and actually cele¬ 
brated his own funeral, taking 
part in the exercises? 894-cd. 

874. —What book did Sir Thomas 

More in England write some¬ 
what in imitation of Plato’s 
“Republic” and what kind of 
government did it propose? 
896-bc. 

875. —While More’s “Utopia” ap¬ 

peared visionary, what good 
came of it? 896-c. 

876. —What was the tendency of 

monarchy all over the world 
in the 16th century? 898-b. 

877. —What English king in 1603 

declared that as it is blas¬ 
phemy to question what God 
may do, so it is contempt to 
question what a king may do 
or not do? 999-a. 

878. —Was there any antagonism, 

growing in intensity, between 
the private ownership of prop¬ 
erty and monarchical control 
in the 17th century? 899-d. 

879. —Was there also a growing re¬ 

sentment against the control 
of individual conscience by 
monarchs and by the church? 
900-a. 

THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN 
KING AND PARLIAMENT 

880. —Describe the struggle for as¬ 

cendency between the English 
Parliament and the English 
king Charles I. 906-d. 907- 
908-909. 





38 How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 


881. —What was the final result upon 

King Charles I? 909-d. 

882. —Tell which side of this con¬ 

troversy Oliver Cromwell took, 
and describe his army. 909- 
bcd. 

883. —What great principle did the 

Rump Parliament declare as 
the authority of the people in 
any government? 910-c. 

884. —What church people in Ire¬ 

land wantonly slaughtered 
other church people, and why? 
911-b. 

885. —What immortal document had 

King John, of England, been 
compelled to sign at Runny- 
mede by English barons 
1215? 905-905-ab. 

886 . —While the Thirty Years War 

was largely civil war, and 
while it was among princes, 
was it also to any extent a war 
between Catholics and Prot¬ 
estants? 916-d. 

887. —What treaty marked the close 

of the Thirty Years War? 
918-d. 

888 . —What is said of looting as an 

assumed right of a soldier in 
the Thirty Years War? 918-b. 

889. —When and how long was 

Louis XIV king of France? 

920- d. 

890. —What pompous title did he 

give himself? 920-d. 

891. —Tell of the splendor of his 

reign and of its encourage¬ 
ment to the fine arts. 921- 
bcd. 

892. —From what source did he get 

the money for his splendor? 

921- b. 

893. —With what French infidel did 

Frederick the Great hold 
good fellowship? 924-d. 

894. —What caused the horrible so¬ 

cial and civil cataclysm known 
as the French Revolution? 
926-a. 


895. —Who may be said to have 

been the chief figure of Eu¬ 
rope in the 17th century? 

931- d. 

896. —Who may be said to have 

been the chief European fig¬ 
ure of the 18th century? 

932- a. 

897. —Tell of the exodus of the Hu¬ 

guenots from the dragonnades 
and persecutions of Louis 
XIV of France? 938-bc. 

898. —What two-fold struggle among 

what four classes has existed 
in practically all human his¬ 
tory? 958-b. 

899. —Did the discovery and settle¬ 

ment of America forecast the 
world-growth toward democ¬ 
racy or toward monarchy? 
958-c. 

900. —Explain the vast advantages 

growing out of the invention 
of the steam engine by Watt 
in 1765. 960-d. 961-abc. 


THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLU¬ 
TION 

901. —What inevitable results be¬ 

tween man and man followed 
the industrial revolution con¬ 
sequent upon the invention 
and use of machinery in man¬ 
ufactures and other forms of 
human work? 961-bcd. 

902. —When the English historian, 

Gibbon, 150 years ago, con¬ 
gratulated the world that the 
age of giant social and politi¬ 
cal catastrophes had passed, 
was he a true prophet? 

963- ab. 

903. —What three countries fell 

upon and divided Poland in 
the 18th century? 963-d. 

964- a. 





How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 39 


904. —What one thing was declared 

to be the cause of the rebel¬ 
lion of the American colonies 
against England ? 964-b. 

905. —Can men or peoples shirk 

world politics and enjoy the 
highest liberty and the secur¬ 
est safety? 964-c. 

906. —Where did the Dutch settle in 

America ? 968-b. 

907. —What was their chief town 

called? 968-b. 

908. —What is its name to-day? 

968-c. 

909. —Where did the Spanish settle? 

968-bc. 

910. —What was their first town? 

968- bc. 

911. —What Englishman settled 

Georgia ? 968-d. 

912. —What English class-system 

came over in the Mayflower? 
Did it continue? 969-bc. 

913. —In what respects did agricul¬ 

tural conditions south of the 
Mason and Dixon line differ 
from those north of it? 969- 
abc. 

914. —Did Indians make good slaves? 

969- c. 

915 . —Of what shameful traffic in 

children was England guilty? 
969-c. 

916. —When were the first negro 

slaves brought from Africa to 
Virginia ? 969-d. 

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 

917. —What three great grievances 

had the Colonist at the very 
start against England? 972-bc. 

918. —What was the Stamp Act 

that the Colonists so vehe¬ 
mently resented? 974-bc. 

919. —What was the Boston Tea 

Party? 974-d. 


920. —What immortal document was 

constructed by the First Colo¬ 
nial Congress at Philadelphia 
in 1774? 975-c. 

921. —Where is Lexington, the scene 

of the first battle of the Amer¬ 
ican Revolution? 975-d. 

922. —Contrast the uniforms and 

military tactics of the British 
and American soldiers. 977-bc. 

923. —Tell of the defeat of the Brit¬ 

ish general Burgoyne in 1777, 
and of the British general 
Cornwallis in 1781. 977-cd. 

978-a. 

924. —What effect did Tom Paine’s 

pamphlet, “Common Sense,” 
have on the life of the Colo¬ 
nists? 978-b. 

925. —When did Congress declare 

for separation from England, 
what document set forth this 
idea, and who was its author? 
978-c. 

926. —What two clauses were 

stricken out of the Declara¬ 
tion of Independence as origi¬ 
nally written by Thomas Jef¬ 
ferson? 978-cd. 

927. —What State at the very be¬ 

ginning of American Inde¬ 
pendence was the first to let 
women vote? 983-b. 

928. —Did the United States be¬ 

come a “federal government,” 
or a “confederate govern¬ 
ment”? 986-c. 

929. —What protest did Lee of Vir¬ 

ginia make against certain 
words in the Constitution, and 
what were those words ? 986-c. 

930. —What place was chosen by the 

first Congress as the perma¬ 
nent seat of government? 
986-d. 

931. —In what way did slavery be¬ 

gin in the Colonies ? 990-d. 

932. —Did Thomas Jefferson favor 

slavery? 991-c. 





40 How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 


933. —Is the principle true as stated 

in the original Bill of Rights 
passed at the first Colonial 
Congress in Philadelphia that 
“all men are by nature free 
and equal?” 991-c. 

934. —What was the first absolutely 

“free state,” and the only 
State in the census of 1790 
that had no slaves? 993-a. 

935. —Which state was the only 

State to close its borders 
against free blacks ? 993-c. 

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 

936. —While the American colonies 

were settling down to inde¬ 
pendent government, what 
great political upheaval was 
disturbing France? 

937. —Tell of some royal injustices 

which the French National 
Assembly abolished, and some 
radical reforms which it inau¬ 
gurated. 1007-bcd. 

938. —What French author and 

statesman suffered so from a 
maddening skin disease caught 
while hiding in the sewers of 
Paris from the fury of the 
king that only by sitting in a 
hot bath could he soothe his 
pain and collect his mind 
enough to write? 1012-d. 

939. —What change in the form of 

French government resulted 
from the French Revolution? 
1018-cd. 

940. —The French Revolution rag¬ 

ing with the passion and vio¬ 
lence of The Commune, had 
in it the combined spirits of 
terror and democracy. It 
alarmed every sovereign in 
Europe, every one of whom 
denounced the Revolution. 
What was Danton’s reply to 
them? 1019-b. 


941. —What effect did the Marseil¬ 

laise hymn have on the spirit 
of the Revolution? 

942. —Is it probable that the Amer¬ 

ican Revolution of 1775-76 had 
any influence on the popular 
mind of France in bringing on 
the French Revolution? 

943. —To what extreme and well- 

nigh fatal blunder did the en¬ 
thusiasm of the French Revo¬ 
lution lead the new Republic 
of France in its relation to 
England? 1019-d. 1020-a. 

944. —Why was Valmy one of the 

decisive battles of human his¬ 
tory? 1018-c. 

945. —Why was Danton beheaded? 

1022-a. 

946. —What punishment did the 

Revolution bring upon the 
atheists? 1022-a. 

947. —What did Danton say when he 

came to the guillotine? 1022-b. 

948. —How can you reconcile the 

fact that Robespierre “lived 
on blood” and yet was “in¬ 
dubitably honest” ? 1022-b. 

949. —What monstrous proposal was 

made about God? 1023-a. 

950. —How many persons had been 

executed as the toll of the 
French Revolution? 1025-b. 

951. —What seven obstacles to uni¬ 

versal justice had the French 
Revolution swept away en¬ 
tirely? 1029-b. 

952. —What was the Jacobian de¬ 

mand concerning property in 
the French Revolution ? 
1032-a. 

953. —What other countries quickly 

followed France in becoming 
republics? 1036-d. 1032-a. 

954. —Did the Republic of France, 

following the French Revolu¬ 
tion, maintain her ideals of 
freedom from oppression and 
realization of universal liberty 
and justice? 1037-b. 





How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 41 


THE RISE OF NAPOLEON 

955. —What five epithets are ap¬ 

plied to Napoleon Bonaparte? 
1039-a. 1039-d. 

956. —What battle made Napoleon 

master of Egypt, and did he 
retain that mastery? 

957. —What three great emperors 

did Napoleon ape? 1046-d. 

958. —What caustic remark did Vic¬ 

tor Hugo make about Napo¬ 
leon? 1047-a. 

959. —What was the impelling am¬ 

bition of Napoleon? 1047-d. 

960. —When was the battle of Tra¬ 

falgar fought, who was the 
English commander and what 
great maxim was uttered by 
him then? Footnote, page 
1052. 

961. —When Napoleon bullied the 

Pope in 1802 what large fol¬ 
lowing did he estrange ? 
1053-b. 

962. —When he crowned himself 

emperor, what other large 
following did he estrange? 
1053-b. _ _ 

963. —What country did he plan to 

conquer when, in 1804, he 
coined a medal and erected a 
column at Cologne to. com¬ 
memorate his victory in ad¬ 
vance? 1053-c. 

964. —What two fleets did Lord Nel¬ 

son destroy in the battle of 
Trafalgar, October 21, 1805? 
1053-d. 

965. —How did Alexander I, Tsar of 

Russia, hope to bring peace to 
all Europe? 1057-d. 

966. —Tell of Napoleon’s disastrous 

retreat from Moscow. 1059-d. 
1060-ab. 

967. —After Napoleon’s fall, who be¬ 

came king of France? 1063-b. 

968. —What became of Marie 

Louise? 1063-d. 


969. —Tell of Napoleon’s escape from 

Elba and his return to Paris. 
1064-a. 

970. —Why did France receive him 

again? 1064-b. 

971. —Where was he taken instead, 

and where and of what disease 
did he die? 1064-d. 

972. —What three countries formed 

the Holy Alliance? 1065-a. 

973. —Whom did this Holy Alliance 

declare to be the king of all 
Christian peoples? 1065-c. 

974. —What led to the Monroe doc¬ 

trine and how is that doctrine 
stated? 1066-bcd. 

975. —In order to maintain freedom 

with social justice, what three 
fundamental problems must 
be solved, and what others 
must be added for a world¬ 
wide social order? 1094-b. 

THE AGE OF STEAM 

976. —Who greatly improved if he 

did not really invent the 
steam engine, and then first 
applied it to driving machin¬ 
ery? 1075-b. 

977. —When and by whom was this 

steam engine first used in 
locomotive machinery, and 
when and where was the first 
locomotive engine employed 
in the uses of traffic? 1075-b. 

978. —What particular advantage 

did the practical use of steam¬ 
ships and locomotives give to 
civilization? 1075-d. 

979. —With the coming of me¬ 

chanical inventions and their 
power to do the work of men 
and to enrich the masters of 
industry, what growing sense 
was apparent throughout the 
civilized world among working 
classes? 1089-bc. 





42 How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 


980.—Who is regarded as the 
founder of modern socialism? 
1094-b. 

S81.—Tell of his experiments in 
working out the best interests 
of the laboring masses collec¬ 
tively? 1094-bcd. 

982. —Why, according to Robert 

Owen, is a stable money value 
and fixed hour of service nec¬ 
essary to justice? 1096-c. 

983. —When and by what body was 

Collective Bargaining first 
granted to the laboring 
masses? 1097-d. What ad¬ 
vantage was it? 

984. —What discrepancy is noted in 

the philosophy of socialism? 
1102 -b. 

985. —What fear kept all European 

sovereigns in a kind of pro¬ 
tective league up to 1848? 
1123-d. 

986. —Who invented the phrase, 

“The sick man of Europe”? 
And to whom was it applied 
and is still universally ap¬ 
plied? 1124-b. 


THE CIVIL WAR 

987. —Were the sympathies of Eu¬ 

ropean monarchs with the 
North or with the South dur¬ 
ing our Civil War, 1861-65, 
and why? 1127-d. 

988. —While our Civil War was at 

its height in 1864, whom did 
Emperor Napoleon III, of 
France, make Emperor of 
Mexico? 1128-bc. 

989. —When the French had to 

abandon Mexico under orders 
from the United States, why 
didn’t Maximilian resign and 
leave too? 1129-a. 


990. —What unifying and strength¬ 

ening effect in the United 
States did the coming of the 
river steamer, the railway and 
the telegraph have? 1132-bcd. 

991. —What effect did the admission 

of Texas into the Union have 
on anti-slavery sentiment on 
the North? 1133-d. 1134-a. 

992. —What was the Fugitive Slave 

Bill? 1135-b. 

993. —Name some consequences if 

the South had won this war? 

994. —How many Union soldiers 

were finally necessary to win 
the war? 1138-b. 

995. —If Lincoln had been able to 

carry out his views might the 
entire war have been averted 
and the Union saved? 

996. —Was slavery the sole question 

in Lincoln’s mind? 1139-b. 

997. —Tell of the furnishing of ships 

in England for the South. 
1140-b. 

998. —Tell of the assassination of 

Lincoln. 1141-b. 

THE INDIAN MUTINY 

999.—Who founded and who or¬ 
ganized the East India Com¬ 
pany for England in India? 
1146-bc. 

1000. —Why did a little lard and tal¬ 

low on ammunition cause a 
rebellion of the Bengal army 
under the British in India? 
1149-ab. 

1001. —What misleading infatuation 

of over-lordships seized Eu¬ 
ropean sovereigns in the last 
century? 1155-cd. 

1002. —Compare the brain power and 

vigor of Asiatics and Euro¬ 
peans. 1157-b. 

1003. —What is really the idea in 

Kipling’s poem—“The White 
Man’s Burden”? 1157-ab. 





How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 43 


1004. —Who were the Boxers, why 

did they organize and what 
did they do? 1158-b. 

1005. —Who were the original in¬ 

habitants of the Japanese 
Islands? 1160-a. 

1006. —In what condition of devel¬ 

opment were the Japanese in 
the first and second centuries 
A.D.? 1160-b. 

1007. —What action did Japan take 

against Europeans because of 
“Christian atrocities,” and 
how long did this action 
stand? 1162-b. 

1008. —To what haughty extent did 

Japanese feudalism go? 1162- 
bcd. 

1009. —In what respect only was the 

British empire mighty at the 
beginning of the World 
War? 1172-c. 

“A PLACE IN THE SUN” 

1010. —Germany being the most 

thoroughly military govern¬ 
ment and the best prepared 
country for war in Europe 
and perhaps in all the world, 
what great western power 
must she reckon with if she 
encroached on the rights of 
that country in a new war? 
1172-d. 

1011. —Into what narrow uses did 

Germany turn all of her in¬ 
tellectual vigor and achieve¬ 
ments at least from 1871 
onward? 1175-b. 

1012. —How were Germans taught 

to regard their own excel¬ 
lences in comparison with 
those of other peoples ? 
1175-bc. _ 

1013. —What kind of conception was 

thus built up in the German 
mind about the German peo¬ 
ple and their emperor? 
1 175-d. 


1014. —What is considered the great¬ 

est of Hohenzollern crimes? 
1176-a. 

1015. —What did Count Moltke say 

of perpetual peace? 1176-b. 

1016. —What haughty spirit prevailed 

amongst Germans after their 
victory over the French in 
1871, and what German ruler 
from that time was the per¬ 
sonification of German hau¬ 
teur and the messenger of 
world domination? 1177-abc. 

1017. —Quote the language of Wil¬ 

liam II, Emperor of Ger¬ 
many, when, in addressing 
the German people, he ex¬ 
pressed his contempt for 
democracy and his love for 
military monarchy. 1178-a. 

1018. —What did he do with the 

great German Chancellor, 
Bismarck, in 1890? 1178-b. 

1019. —What did he announce in 

1885 as Germany’s future? 
1179-a. 

1020. —Arising from the political 

teaching of Karl Marx what 
political party developed, 
and how did the Kaiser re¬ 
gard it? 1181-ab. 

1021. —In the 18th century what 

promise to the Catholics in 
Ireland did England make 
and then repudiate? 1187-a. 

1022. —What was the English ac¬ 

tion against the Catholics 
in Ireland and against the 
Irish language in the Ire¬ 
land of Swift and Gold¬ 
smith? 1187-d. 1188-a. 

1023. —What check stands always 

against the excessive use of 
presidential power in the 
United States? 1201-a. 

1024. —What quarrel arose between 

the United States and Eng¬ 
land in 1895, what action did 
President Cleveland take, 
and what did Mr. Olney say 
about it ? 1202. 





44 How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 


1025. —What was the result of the 

Spanish-American War of 
1898? What .islands were 
acquired by the United 
States and what is the pres¬ 
ent status of each of these 
islands? 1202-cd. 

1026. —May conditions of climate, 

pestilence and disasters 
change the course of hu¬ 
man events? 1204-d. 

THE WORLD WAR 

1027. —What nation will posterity 

blame for the World War, 
and on what one offending 
condition will freemen of 
coming ages rest this cen¬ 
sure? 1205-b. 

1028. —What governmental and so¬ 

cial conditions all over Eu¬ 
rope in 1914 tended almost 
surely toward war? 1205-bc. 

1029. —What tragedy brought the 

war tendencies of Europe 
and especially of Germany 
and Russia into active con¬ 
flict in 1914? 1207-b. 

1030. —What act forced England 

into the World War? 1210-a. 
Do you believe that Ger¬ 
many’s invasion of Belgium 
meant invasion of England? 

1031. —Germany, had declared war 

on Russia August 1, 1914. 
Why did she attack France 
pending actual hostilities 
with Russia? 1210-d. 

1032. —What ridiculous traditions 

about methods of fighting 
were w e 11 n i g h fatal to 
France? 1211-b. 

1033. —What great battle shattered 

the German cut-and-dried 
plan for the conquest of 
France? 1212-b. 


1034. —When the Germans were 

making their terrific on¬ 
slaught at Verdun and were 
hurling back the French 
with enormous losses, what 
battle cry, shouted and sung, 
probably saved the day for 
France? 1215-b. 

1035. —What did the Germans ac¬ 

complish with Zeppelins in 
the war? 1216-ab. 

1036. —Tell of the submarine meth¬ 

ods of Germany, and what 
incident drew the United 
States into the war? 1217- 
abcd. 

1037. —When the first English tank 

was exhibited to British mili¬ 
tary authorities, what action 
did they take concerning it? 
1219-bc. 

1038. —What three great military 

inventions were new on the 
World War? 

1039. —What was the Soviet? 1223- 

bcd. 

1040. —What change of motive 

might have won the war for 
Germany? 1224-b. 

1041. —The subjugation of what 

great country was the first 
necessity for world domina¬ 
tion by Germany? 1224-b. 

1042. —What warning was given in 

1917 by Germany to all neu¬ 
tral powers on the seas ? 
1224-b. 

THE ARMISTICE AND AFTER 

1043. —On what date did the United 

States enter the World 
War? 1224-c. 

1044. —If gas masks had not been 

invented and used by the 
Allies, is it not almost cer¬ 
tain that Germany would 
have won the war? 1224-d. 





How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 45 


1045. —Were the anti-submarine de¬ 

vices of the Allies in air and 
water successful? 1224-d. 

1046. —What effect did the arrival 

in France of hundreds of 
thousands of American sol¬ 
diers have upon the morale 
of allied armies? And what 
upon the Central Powers ? 
1226-a. 

1047. —In what battle did the Amer¬ 

icans first distinguish them¬ 
selves ? 1227-a. 

1048. —What countries of the Cen¬ 

tral Powers first capitulated? 

1228-b. 

1049. —When was the Armistice 

signed and what became of 
the Kaiser and his son, the 
Crown Prince, afterwards ? 
1228-bc. 

1050. —How many men were killed, 

and how many died of dis¬ 
ease and exposure? 1228-c. 

1051. —While many men were toil¬ 

ing without pay during the 
war and many others were 
dying in battle, what con¬ 
scienceless conduct were yet 
others guilty of at home in 
our own country? 1232-ab. 

1052. —What kind of money had 

been reserved for interna¬ 
tional trade, and what kind 
had been issued excessively 
in almost every country that 
had been engaged in war? 

1053. —Did the despair of wage 

earners tend toward revolu¬ 
tion when the prices of food 
and clothing, rent and inter¬ 
est went high without ade¬ 
quate increase of wages? 
1234-b. 

1054. —Was the capitalist system ap¬ 

parently on trial after the 
war? 1234-bc. 


THE FOURTEEN POINTS 

1055. —How did Clemenceau, of 

France, say President Wil¬ 
son talked, and what witti¬ 
cism did he perpetrate about 
Wilson’s Fourteen Points? 
1259-b. 

1056. —What reception was given 

by the United States Senate 
to President Wilson’s tenta¬ 
tive League of Nations? 
1263-cd. 

1057. —For what did all the assem¬ 

bled powers fight in the 
Paris Conference? 1266-d. 

1058. —What is the ultimate law of 

all war? 1274-ab. 

1059. —What prime idea stimulated 

all the Allies over and above 
the thought of defeating 
Germany? 1275-d. 

1060. —What great conference was 

held in Washington in 1921, 
and what was its purpose? 
1284-d. 

1061. —Toward what supreme dem¬ 

ocratic achievement have the 
horrors of war compelled 
mankind to strive and expect 
with confidence? 1290-c. 

1062. —If world fraternity does not 

come, at least sufficiently to 
stop war, what may be ex¬ 
pected? 1290-d. 

1063. —What queer sentiments seem 

to array themselves against 
the establishment of a world 
peace and fraternity? 1291-d. 

THE UNITED STATES OF THE 
WORLD 

1064. —What five considerations 

seem to be impelling man¬ 
kind toward some system of 
adequate world control in se¬ 
curing permanent peace and 
in abolishing war? 





46 How Many of These Questions Can You Answer? 


1065. —What is the supreme task be¬ 

fore the world in preparation 
for world peace? 1295-bcd. 

1066. —What is perhaps the most 

powerful forward - moving 
force in the world to-day? 
1296-bc. 

1067. —If a world state is ever es¬ 

tablished, upon what will it 
be based? 1297-a. 

1068. —What form of government 

would be inevitable? 1297-d. 

1069. —What kind of economic sys¬ 

tem would likely prevail? 
1298-a. 

1070. —If nothing is done to stop 

wars, might the human race 
one day be wholly destroyed 
or almost so? 1300-a. 

1071. —What people to-day migrate 

to and fro every year with 
change of seasons like swal¬ 
lows or robins? 1302-bc. 


1072. —When does dependable chro¬ 

nology begin? 130-a. 

1073. —What is the true date of the 

birth of Christ, and how do 
you explain this? 1312-b. 

1074. —When did the Christian Era 

begin? 1312-b. 

1075. —Who was emperor of Rome 

at the birth of Christ, and 
who was emperor when He 
was crucified? 1312-c. 

1076. —When was Jesus crucified? 

1312- c. 

1077. —When and under what em¬ 

peror did Rome acquire its 
greatest territorial extent ? 

1313- a. 

1078. —What sacrament or rite did 

Constantine receive on his 
death bed? 1314-b. 

1079. —Tell of the life and work of 

Muhammad? See index for 
text. 






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